or, put your headphones on and I'll read it to you (actually read for the
reading / vision impaired).
http://scout235.tripod.com/MyWatch_-...g_by_Scout.MP3
Scout


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...
Sketches New and Old, 1875; but I cheated, what did you expect?
A couple of the sketches we had at school, but The Watch or is it
My Watch wasn't one of them. Sam Clemens is one of the few people
I would _really_ like to meet in whatever afterlife there might
be. Thanks for the additional prompt. I think I'll print out the
E-book and crawl off for a quiet read now!

Scout wrote:

"I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker, and looked on while
he
took her to pieces. Then I prepared to cross-question him rigidly, for
this
thing was getting serious. The watch had cost two hundred dollars
originally, and I seemed to have paid out two or three thousand for
repairs.
While I waited and looked on I presently recognized in this watchmaker
an
old acquaintance -- a steamboat engineer of other days, and not a good
engineer, either. He examined all the parts carefully, just as the other
watchmakers had done, and then delivered his verdict with the same
confidence of manner. He said: "She makes too much steam -- you want to
hang
the monkey-wrench on the safety valve!" I brained him on the spot, and
had
him buried at my own expense."

Scout

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katysails wrote:

A Tramp Abroad...one that I haven't read....If he's going to quote,
he
should use quotes and give credit....I thought he was a lawyer?
Shouldn't
he be above plagiarism? (snort)

Ah, but you see, he thought his audience was erudite enough to
automatically recognise the style, if not the immediate source,
and he was right, wasn't he? (primp, preen)
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Ah, but you see, he thought his audience was erudite enough to
automatically recognize the style, if not the immediate source,
and he was right, wasn't he? (primp, preen)
--
I figured he hadn't written it....but he still owes the author the
remark....
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"katysails" wrote in message
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Shouldn't he be above plagiarism? (snort)


".....substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously
drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a
pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them;
whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the
little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his
temperament, which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. . . . It
takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a
phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone, or any other Important thing--
and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his
little mite--that is all he did.
In 1886 I read Dr. Holmes's poems, in the Sandwich Islands. A year and a
half later I stole his dedication, without knowing it, and used it to
dedicate my "Innocents Abroad" with. Ten years afterward I was talking with
Dr. Holmes about it. He was not an ignorant ass--no, not he; . . . and so
when I said, "I know now where I stole, but who did you steal it from?" he
said, "I don't remember; I only know I stole it from somebody, because I
have never originated anything altogether myself, nor met anybody who had."

Mark Twain in a letter to Letter to Anne Macy. Reprinted in Anne Sullivan
Macy, The Story Behind Helen Keller (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran,
and Co., 1933), p.162.


Satisfied now?

BC

Bob,
Remember it's not only for giving credit that we cite sources. The reader
may find your excerpt so fascinating that s/he will want more. In that
regard, citing is a courtesy to your reader.
I didn't do it in this thread, so don't follow my poor example.
Scout

"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
ink.net...

"katysails" wrote in message
...

Shouldn't he be above plagiarism? (snort)


".....substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and
unconsciously
drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with
a
pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them;
whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the
little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his
temperament, which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. . . . It
takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a
phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone, or any other Important
thing--
and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his
little mite--that is all he did.
In 1886 I read Dr. Holmes's poems, in the Sandwich Islands. A year and a
half later I stole his dedication, without knowing it, and used it to
dedicate my "Innocents Abroad" with. Ten years afterward I was talking
with
Dr. Holmes about it. He was not an ignorant ass--no, not he; . . . and so
when I said, "I know now where I stole, but who did you steal it from?" he
said, "I don't remember; I only know I stole it from somebody, because I
have never originated anything altogether myself, nor met anybody who
had."

Mark Twain in a letter to Letter to Anne Macy. Reprinted in Anne Sullivan
Macy, The Story Behind Helen Keller (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran,
and Co., 1933), p.162.


Satisfied now?

BC

He is the lunatic poet escaped from the local asylum,
Loudly he twanged on his banjo and sang with his voice like a saw-mill,
While as with fervour he sang there was borne o'er the shuddering wildwood,
Borne on the breath of the poet a flavour of rum and of onions.
He sang of the Deficit Demon that dqelt in the Treasury Mountains,
How it was small in its youth and a champion was sent to destroy it:
Dibbs he was salled, and he boasted, "Soon I will wipe out the Monster,"
But while he was boasting and bragging the monster grew larger and larger.

One day as Dibbs bragged of his prowess in daylight the Deficit met him,
Settled his hash in one act and made him to all man a byword,
Sent hin, a raving ex-Premier, to dwell in the shades of oblivion,
And the people put forward a champion known as Sir Patrick the Portly.

As in the midnight the tom-cat who seeketh his love on the house top,
Lifteth his voice up and is struck by the fast whizzing brickbat,
Drops to the ground in a swoon and glides to the silent hereafter,
So fell Sir Patrick the Portly at the stroke of the Deficit Demon.

Then were the people amazed and they called for the champion of champions
Known as Sir 'Enry the Fishfag unequalled in vilification.
He is the man, said the people, to wipe out the Deficit Monster,
If nothing else fetches him through he can at the least talk its head off.

So he sharpened his lance of Freetrade and he practised in loud-mouthing
abusing,
"Poodlehead," "Craven," and "Mole-eyes" were things that he purposed to call
it,
He went to the fight full of valour and all men are waiting the issue,
Though they know not his armour nor weapons excepting his power of abusing.

Loud sang the lunatic his song of the champions of valour
Until he was sighted and captured by fleet-footed keepers pursuing,
To whom he remarked with a smile as they ran him off back to the madhouse,
"If you want to back Parkes I'm your man -- here's a cool three to one on
the Deficit."






"Mike Mc" wrote in message
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What a wierdo !


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I detect a soupcon.

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"Flying Tadpole" wrote:

katysails wrote:

A Tramp Abroad...one that I haven't read....If he's going to quote, he
should use quotes and give credit....I thought he was a lawyer?
Shouldn't
he be above plagiarism? (snort)

Ah, but you see, he thought his audience was erudite enough to
automatically recognise the style, if not the immediate source,
and he was right, wasn't he? (primp, preen)

Such a cute li'l budgie!

Seahag

Seahag wrote:

"Flying Tadpole" wrote:

katysails wrote:

A Tramp Abroad...one that I haven't read....If he's going to quote, he
should use quotes and give credit....I thought he was a lawyer?
Shouldn't
he be above plagiarism? (snort)

Ah, but you see, he thought his audience was erudite enough to
automatically recognise the style, if not the immediate source,
and he was right, wasn't he? (primp, preen)

Such a cute li'l budgie!


Nah. Just a little cocky.

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I see you've subscribed to The Bulletin, but I didn't think our
mails were _that_ slow.

(Mind you, while I know when, and think I know where, I haven't a
clue about who, nor have I seen this before. Especially apposite
now as th Free Traders under other names have taken a whole
century to climb back up, and are now threatened by potential
parliamentary refusals to pass the FTA.)

Bob Crantz quoted:

He is the lunatic poet escaped from the local asylum,
Loudly he twanged on his banjo and sang with his voice like a saw-mill,
While as with fervour he sang there was borne o'er the shuddering wildwood,
Borne on the breath of the poet a flavour of rum and of onions.

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wrote:

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:45:09 +0930, Flying Tadpole
wrote:



Bob Crantz wrote:

wrote in message
news On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:38:45 GMT, "Bob Crantz"
wrote:
or you are too
inarticulate to explain yourself. Okay!

BB


Had you of wit or letters the least jot:
But, O most lamentable man!--of wit
You never had an atom, and of letters
You have three letters only!--they spell Ass!
And--had you had the necessary wit,
To serve me all the pleasantries I quote
Before this noble audience. . .e'en so,
You would not have been let to utter one--
Nay, not the half or quarter of such jest!
I take them from myself all in good part,
But not from any other man that breathes!

BC

You expected more, Mr Crantz? I'd have thought you too would have
realised that Bill the Binary's barnacle nature is a retreat from
the world of articulation. But he can count to 1.

Bivalves can count to two, which is far beyond the cramped cranium of Crantz to
comprehend. Tadpoles can't count at all, as they have no extremities for
assitance.

BB

Dear Binacle,
Moving from a crustacean existence, even an immobile one, to a
bivalve is an evolutionary backward step in many respects.
Indeed, in voluntarily moving across to join the Mollusca, had
you opted to become a squid, that would have been a much more
significant step, and you would have been able to enter base 10
maths, rather than remaining simply base. Or a nautiloid, and so
enabling mandatory sailing content.

On your other assertion, Tadpoles know that they count indeed,
and that significantly. Look how rapid your response was to the
goad.
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Surprise!

http://www.uq.edu.au/~mlwham/banjo/t...cit_demon.html


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I see you've subscribed to The Bulletin, but I didn't think our
mails were _that_ slow.

(Mind you, while I know when, and think I know where, I haven't a
clue about who, nor have I seen this before. Especially apposite
now as th Free Traders under other names have taken a whole
century to climb back up, and are now threatened by potential
parliamentary refusals to pass the FTA.)

Bob Crantz quoted:

He is the lunatic poet escaped from the local asylum,
Loudly he twanged on his banjo and sang with his voice like a saw-mill,
While as with fervour he sang there was borne o'er the shuddering
wildwood,
Borne on the breath of the poet a flavour of rum and of onions.

--
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