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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 3:37 am

For those who are saying, what....?

It’s this:

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Iconic book of the American counterculture. Perfect for your QHQ (quarantine headquarters).
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 3:40 am

I tried to read that forty years ago and failed.
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 3:46 am

I tried to read that forty years ago and failed.
But you did read Zen and the Art..., as I recall.

Very different flavor, but still of the times.

Those two, Cuckoo’s Nest, Crying of Lot 49, and capped by Gravity’s Rainbow.

Never mind the “woke” man thing. These are better than that.

Quarantine is only in your mind! Tear down those walls, Dr. Gorbachev-Wilmott.
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 3:43 pm

Ich bin ein Wilmotter?

But you did read Zen and the Art..
got to page 30, like the Enterprise silicon chips , load of junk
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 3:49 pm

Ciao Bella

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdz-5SaP9n4

Una mattina mi sono svegliato,
o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
Una mattina mi sono svegliato,
e ho trovato l'invasor.

O partigiano, portami via,
o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
O partigiano, portami via,
ché mi sento di morir.

E se io muoio da partigiano,
o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
E se io muoio da partigiano,
tu mi devi seppellir.

E seppellire lassù in montagna,
o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
E seppellire lassù in montagna,
sotto l'ombra di un bel fior.

Tutte le genti che passeranno,
o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
Tutte le genti che passeranno,
Mi diranno «Che bel fior!»
«È questo il fiore del partigiano»,
o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
«È questo il fiore del partigiano, morto per la libertà!»
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 4:20 pm

Ich bin ein Wilmotter?
I do not.
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 5:04 pm

Speaking of Wilmotters and Facebook in the other thread, I've just tapped some prominent names in the Facebook search and found this:
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That explains why the conference was held in the sinking city of Venice :-)
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 5:09 pm

"mellifluent, affluent effluent"

I've been called worse.
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 7:09 pm

What about just good old "fluent"? (it's a literal translation from Italian 'influente', so they dropped an e to make it look like English. The Dutch do that all the time as well). At least, it wasn't influenza. The name influenza comes Italian; influenza, meaning "influence". 

Confluent hypergeogrumpic of the 2nd kind? (just kidding).

I once knew a student who claimed "sono polyglot, parlo Italiano e Calabrese".
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 7:28 pm

Paul, 
Did you eat Ticino Spaghetti?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 8:15 pm

No. 

On that trip to Venice I found the food quite uninspiring. The best restaurant we ate at was Gam Gam.

I did go into a nice cheese shop to ask for some casu marzu. But they said it was illegal to sell it, thanks to EU laws!
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 8:17 pm

Confluent hypergeogrumpic of the 2nd kind? (just kidding).
Incontinential?
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 15th, 2020, 8:51 pm

Venice is a rip off, esp near Pizza San Marco. Trattorias are much better.
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 16th, 2020, 4:34 pm

Ditto! Pizza at Piazza San Macro is a rip off. But it would make a nice title for a song.
 
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Re: How should we deal with the coronavirus pandemic?

April 16th, 2020, 6:11 pm

Ditto! Pizza at Piazza San Macro is a rip off. But it would make a nice title for a song.
Ristoranti have snooty waiters, Trattorie are usually family-run ==> great service.