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« on: 17:59:02, 13-09-2007 » |
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Here's a place to regain your self-confidence and indulge in what is specifically banned from the EMBARRASSING, CRINGEWORTHY ADMISSIONS OF IGNORANCE thread. And for starters . . . Don't know Hamlet? Can't understand the lingo? Here's a very brief version by Richard Curtis featuring specific limited vocabulary. http://www.sa.rochester.edu/drama/skinhead.html |
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« Reply #1 on: 18:19:32, 13-09-2007 » |
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Thanks, autoharp. I did note with sadness that it was explicitly banned for other Members to attempt to rectify their fellows' ignorance on the said thread, and I gathered that inviting them to do so would be tantamount to an incitement to offend.
So thanks for creating a place where I can ask this:
In the wake of my discovery about New York, I'm still very confused about Manhattan Island. Through the years in which I believed New York was inland, I always imagined Manhattan was only metaphorically described as an island, or at the most that it was something like London's Isle of Dogs. Having now discovered the New York is on the coast I'm still wondering: is Manhattan actually an island out in the bay, or is it in a sort of estuary/river running inland?
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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TimR-J
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« Reply #2 on: 18:27:11, 13-09-2007 » |
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New Yorkers and geographers will no doubt be able to improve on this definition, but essentially Manhattan is an island - although the waterway along the North Eastern edge is more like a river than open water. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=New+York,+NY,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=40.797177,-73.905373&spn=0.202465,0.362549&t=k&z=12&om=1Panning out to show the coastline: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=New+York,+NY,+USA&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=40.718119,-73.685303&spn=0.810819,1.450195&z=10 |
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« Reply #3 on: 18:32:19, 13-09-2007 » |
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I like the transit map: http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htmThe Harlem River isolates Manhatten to the north, the East River to the east and the Hudson River to the west. PS. I love this map as much as the London Underground one! |
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« Reply #4 on: 18:36:44, 13-09-2007 » |
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Harlem River - that's the one.
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« Reply #5 on: 19:04:51, 13-09-2007 » |
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What a useless, humorless thread this is! Indeed! Well, I shan't be visiting it again, so no need to reply to this message, except perhaps via PM.
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« Reply #6 on: 19:30:52, 13-09-2007 » |
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POLONIUS: Oi! You!
HAMLET: F*ck off, grandad!
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« Reply #7 on: 19:35:04, 13-09-2007 » |
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Well, I shan't be visiting it again Right. That's seen him off. Good work, boys. Now then, time to bring out your German/American jokes!  |
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« Reply #8 on: 20:29:54, 13-09-2007 » |
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Well, I shan't be visiting it again Right. That's seen him off. Good work, boys. Now then, time to bring out your German/American jokes! Well, it will perhaps remain to be seen (or not) how long it may be before any such jokes are superseded by some Welsh ones from the totally consonantally unchallenged Prof. Sir Richard the Self-confessed Third Baronet Rodney Barrett and, speaking personally, I look forward very much to any such humorous dispensations that he may feel disposed to make here, since his sense of humour is so obviously and splendidly well-developed. Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #9 on: 20:31:36, 13-09-2007 » |
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auto, that's got the tears streaming down my cheek.  sad, innit? |
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« Reply #10 on: 23:41:03, 13-09-2007 » |
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KB carefully takes up position on the street corner and begins whistling nonchalantly in the hope of being relieved of some embarrassing ignorance.
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KB returns to street corner 90 mins. later with a discreet and elegantly lettered placard indicating that she is not interested in casual liaisons.
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #11 on: 23:57:49, 13-09-2007 » |
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POLONIUS: Oi! You!
HAMLET: F*ck off, grandad!
Even wishing to insult him I can't imagine anyone calling their elderly UNCLE grandad  |
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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #12 on: 00:15:30, 14-09-2007 » |
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And there's me thinking Claudius was Hamlet's uncle, John!!  |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #13 on: 06:55:11, 14-09-2007 » |
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does no-one know hamlet well enough here??
maybe you know it under its other name: the scottish play.
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« Reply #14 on: 08:34:52, 14-09-2007 » |
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I thought Hamlet was an A A Milne creation
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