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Prudish Danes: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... ic-removal

How else are mermaids supposed to lure sailors to their deaths?

Oh yes, their enchanting songs, I forgot. LOL

Scylla and Charibdis ? (no spell check done)

Scylla and Charibdis ? (no spell check done)

Arguably Charybdis, but you are not wrong.  And hear a reference in this enchanting song:
I read Sting's autobiography earlier this summer.  Very literate and entertaining man.

Is Shakespeare really Hamlet track??

Denmark, land of faity tales (pauperesque)

Is Shakespeare really Hamlet track??

I asked Google and it firmly corrected me that Shakespeare is an author and Hamlet is a work by him.

However. Wikipedia provides more insight on one interpretation. I had not heard of this before. It also refers to an actual Danish prince, :

"Most scholars reject the idea that Hamlet is in any way connected with Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet Shakespeare, who died in 1596 at age eleven. Conventional wisdom holds that Hamlet is strongly connected to legend, and the name Hamnet was quite popular at the time."

But did Shakespeare "borrow" the ideas?

"Many of the earlier legendary elements are interwoven in the 13th-century "Life of Amleth" (Latin: Vita Amlethi) by Saxo Grammaticus, part of Gesta Danorum.^[11] Written in Latin, it reflects classical Roman concepts of virtue and heroism, and was widely available in Shakespeare's day."

More to the point on who was Shakespeare, I side somewhat with the Bacon crowd, though I think a consortium is also possible. As was the case with ppauper!

Scylla and Charibdis ? (no spell check done)

Arguably Charybdis, but you are not wrong.  And hear a reference in this enchanting song:

I read Sting's autobiography earlier this summer.  Very literate and entertaining man.

I lived in the Jordaan area (next door to Anne Frank's house) in the summer of 1978. The Police were yuge.

Same 1978 - junior high and really getting into rock, pop, with my little FM radio.

One of my favorites, staying with the lost at sea theme:

great group

yes, ppauper was

1. Extremely talented applied mathematician
2. Marathon runner
3. Deep knowledge of geography/history.
4.Racist/whte supremicist
5. Bible man, Isreal milk and hnoey (later corrected to honey by DaveAngel)
6. Cimate denier
7. Whatever you are having yourself.

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yes, ppauper was
So here is what I think:

1. Extremely talented applied mathematician - yes
2. Marathon runner - yes
3. Deep knowledge of geography/history - yes
4.Racist/whte supremicist - no, i think this was an extreme pose that amused him/them endlessly, but I don't buy it. But "Thank you, Mr. President" always made me laugh. And maybe he really did admire Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher. It doesn't mean R/WS. Paul is in that camp too.

5. etc. better than that - a real taste for the absurd, outrageous, humorous, tragic, and everything in between.

6. again maybe a consortium, but lead author was one person.

A mystery we will never solve, I guess, but on the relatively rare occasions when I have met someone off-forum, ppauper is the touchstone for those many silly, time-wasteful, but somehow happy years.

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Ah, you added a few there while I was at work on my post:

5. Bible man, Isreal milk and hnoey (later corrected to honey by DaveAngel) - again, very knowledgable, but I think it was an amusing pose and guaranteed to draw fire from da among others. Remember the "blow your funky Shofar comments?" (Chauffeur for those who don't remember - and this went on and on every Easter/Passover...LOL)
6. Cimate denier - maybe, maybe not, but always good for starting an argument, as was 5. And if you threw tons of data at him, he'd tend to settle down.
7. Whatever you are having yourself. Do unto others?

He liked debates and Fight Club and so forth and you could not get anywhere around here in those days just being middle of the road milquetoast.

And this?

same era!

Inspiration from The Who - sometimes the concert movies don't focus in enough, but here you can really see what is going on.

I have a ways to go before I can do it all, but I'm nailing down pieces here and there!

Lambeg drums to put the fear of G-d into the Catholics

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