A Conversation for The Manifesto for the Campaign to rename Thursday, "Thing"
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Estelendur (AKA Esty) Posted Jul 31, 2004
Well, yes, he would have, because a birthday is simply acknowledging that one has aged a year.
Hmm... Maybe he didn't want anyone knowing who he gave it to, and he told them that they could have it in a separate message or in person?
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Kat - From H2G2 Posted Jul 31, 2004
Nerdy Shakespeare facts:
#1. He wrote plays from around 1590 to 1616 and then died
#2. He used 17,677 different words in his writing
#3. I think about 1,700 of those were completely new words!
#4. The Bible at that time only used 8,000 different words
#5. He invented such wonderful words as: leapfrog, majestic, gust, lonely, monumental and hurry.
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Estelendur (AKA Esty) Posted Jul 31, 2004
Well, not really, he wouldn't have aged exactly a year, but he'd have aged 365 days, and that's what actually counts.
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Midnight Ice - the Daughter of a Cacophony of Chrysanthemums Posted Jul 31, 2004
And "assassinated".
You wouldn't be a member of the assassins guild if it wasn't for him!
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Lady Scott Posted Jul 31, 2004
*leapfrogs through the backlog in one majestic hurtle (due to a tremendous gust of wind), then lands, lonely on the other side, but is in a monumental hurry*
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Kat - From H2G2 Posted Jul 31, 2004
Wonder what people got before they got assassinated....just killed?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 31, 2004
*giggles at Lady Scott.* 
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Midnight Ice - the Daughter of a Cacophony of Chrysanthemums Posted Jul 31, 2004
Probably. And how would Lady Scott's previous sentence be possible?
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Kat - From H2G2 Posted Jul 31, 2004
Let us LEAPFROG to the MAJESTIC SUMMIT of that EXCELLENT kill. BURRY before a GUST blows you off its MONUMENTAL, BAREFACED side and leaves me LONELY.
Don't be daft! A rose by any other name is a Daffodil or possibly a Chrysanthemum ....
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 31, 2004
Ah, but he didn't invent the words "spork" or "Thing", so he can't be *that* great.
Don't be daft! A rose by any other name is a Daffodil or possibly a Chrysanthemum ....
Estelendur (AKA Esty) Posted Jul 31, 2004
True, true...
Don't be daft! A rose by any other name is a Daffodil or possibly a Chrysanthemum ....
Midnight Ice - the Daughter of a Cacophony of Chrysanthemums Posted Jul 31, 2004
Ah, but DID he..?
No... you're right, he probably didn't, so he can't be that good...
Don't be daft! A rose by any other name is a Daffodil or possibly a Chrysanthemum ....
Kat - From H2G2 Posted Jul 31, 2004
Ah this is true....hmmm...but then again...Thing was a word before that...
Then again...what about Chaucer!? Anyone had to study him?
Don't be daft! A rose by any other name is a Daffodil or possibly a Chrysanthemum ....
Estelendur (AKA Esty) Posted Jul 31, 2004
Not me.
Don't be daft! A rose by any other name is a Daffodil or possibly a Chrysanthemum ....
Watermusic Posted Jul 31, 2004
'Is this a 
that I see before me?'
Don't be daft! A rose by any other name is a Daffodil or possibly a Chrysanthemum ....
Estelendur (AKA Esty) Posted Jul 31, 2004
Ooo, !
Don't be daft! A rose by any other name is a Daffodil or possibly a Chrysanthemum ....
Kat - From H2G2 Posted Jul 31, 2004
Chaucer lived in the 1300s and collected stories. He then linked them together into one long poem called "The Canterbury Tales" in which people were travelling to Canterbury on a holy pilgrimage and each told a story to pass the time.
I had to read them...
It looks like this:
A poure wydwe, somdel stape in age
Was whilom dwellyng in a narwe cotage
Beside a greve, stondynge in a dale
This wydwe, of which I telle yow my tale,
Syn thilke day that she was last a wyf
In pacience ladded a ful symple lyf
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