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- basye, on 07/08/2008, -2/+24Mark Twain=The Onion of the 1800's
- thebaron2, on 07/08/2008, -0/+20“the right thumb rested against the side of the nose; the left thumb partially supported the chin, the fore-finger pressed the inner corner of the left eye, drawing it partly open; the right eye was closed, and the fingers of the right hand spread apart.”
Anyone else read this and find themselves making a weird ass face at their computer screen?
The people in my office think I'm nuts now... Thanks Mark. - ApokalypseNow, on 07/08/2008, -0/+17I always enjoyed how he prefaced The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
"So class, what do you think Mark Twain was attempting to say with this interaction between Huck and Jim?"
"I think he was just trying to say they disagreed."
"What makes you think that?"
"Page 1." - slvrbullet87, on 07/08/2008, -0/+16"Never let truth get in the way of a good story" - Mark Twain
- alapoet, on 07/07/2008, -4/+20Gotta love Mark Twain. That irascible old coot.
- maddskillz, on 07/08/2008, -0/+11How long have you been waiting to work the term irascible into a sentence?
- Battlecry, on 07/08/2008, -0/+9Yeah, I never really understood that either. I wonder if it's a gesture that just isn't relevant today.
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -0/+8"Twain’s own shame at the human race’s partiality to superstition and pseudoscience was revealed on a much larger scale by his au"
Gold? - SolidBones, on 07/08/2008, -0/+8This makes me wish that there were more people like him in the present.
- BlockedUser, on 07/08/2008, -3/+10“the right thumb rested against the side of the nose; the left thumb partially supported the chin, the fore-finger pressed the inner corner of the left eye, drawing it partly open; the right eye was closed, and the fingers of the right hand spread apart.”
That doesnt really describe a "thumbing of the nose" - zadadka, on 07/08/2008, -0/+6I think Rewebbed means that thumbing your nose involves putting your thumb on your nose and wiggling your fingers....saying "nah-nah-nah-nah-nah" is optional.
- Hetman, on 07/08/2008, -1/+5It is really not that difficult to deceive people. I mean just look how many religions we have. That is proof enough that people will believe almost everything you tell them.
- Duositex, on 07/08/2008, -1/+5Anyone else find this description utterly useless? Anyone else tired of people lazily pasting part of the first paragraph of an article instead of actually *gasp* describing the content?
Oh wait that's right. This is an environmental graffiti submission. Never mind. Free pass to the front page. - poet, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4Actually America's first superstar was Washington Irving. He wrote the book "The Life & Voyages of Christopher Columbus" which is what our schools teach to our children about how America was discovered "in 1492 while Columbus sailed the ocean blue"--doesn't that sound grammatically pleasing? The truth is Columbus was a Freemason and Spanish settlers were already here in 1325 when the record of 'Crow Creek Massacre' happened (go ahead, google it; Europeans in USA in 1325--it's fact).
Just like the story of Paul Revere being the guy who rode his horse and told the colonies the British was coming. Paul Revere only rode for 19 miles from Boston to Cambridge. Truth be told, a British newspaper journalist named Israel Bissel rode 151 miles on horseback to warn the American colonies of the Brits coming. Another one of those, "Come one, come all to hear, the story, the legend of Paul Revere." If it sounds good, people tend to believe it--but isn't it said, the truth always hurts. - ngmcs8203, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4Basically the corpse was winking and playing the imaginary trumpet on his nose (if you can picture it).
- tidu, on 07/08/2008, -1/+4"In Mark Twain ’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Hank Morgan watches his..."
gotta love commas. - Kevinannica, on 07/08/2008, -5/+8If he used the name Mark Twain why shouldn't we?
- poet, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3That quote sums up all of history--especially American history.
- INDOAZZ, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2America' s First Real Superstar!!!
- PabloMac, on 07/08/2008, -1/+3"Europeans in USA in 1325--it's fact"
Is there something about July 4, 1776 the rest of us don't know? - poet, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2The truth. But why be shocked, it's only pop culture of the times. Pop culture includes lying to entertain.
- poet, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1How was Mark Twain easily angered?
- altrego99, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Well, his eyes opened in Time's Arrow, stardate 45959.1, when he got a glimpse of what is to come. Being an intelligent, witty man and an author, he put these down in a deceptive manner in his stories.
- josephbloseph, on 07/08/2008, -2/+3Sometimes it is good for stories to just be stories
- BlockedUser, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I was picturing the Nah Nah gesture, which it doesn't resemble. Im wondering if it was intentional, or if it were made to look as though the corpse was protecting its face from something... (is there a pic anywhere???)
- mattb5, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1Is this like the elbow licking thing? How many people are touching their noses right now?
- oldman, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1He used the name from the very start -- "The famous jumping frog of Calaveras County" Hardly progressive. Though he may have needed cover for the newspaper he wrote for at the time. Then again he still used the Twain moniker for his biograph of U. S. Grant.
and besides the world at large knows him as Mark and explanations would be required often if you were to use th Clemons name. - AYork, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I love Twain. One of my all-time favorite authors.
I think that line was a warning, just done in Twain's usual sarcastic style. Think about what the moral, motive, and plot are in the story (Not just questioning the morality of slavery, not just suggesting that blacks are fully human, but actually suggesting that black people were just like white people in every way). Now think of the audience (late 1800s US Southerners).
Finding that moral could get you shot. - funkytaco, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I prefer Benjamin Franklin's pranks.
- SolidBones, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Money talks.
- loolz, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1guilty. still can't figure it out. maybe the hoax was to see how many people throughout time would try this and be buffooned into shruggery.
- sublimemm, on 07/08/2008, -1/+1Because he was afraid to write such "progressive" material under his own name. Since we don't consider his works to be progressive anymore, I don't think he would mind :)
- BatmanStan, on 12/16/2008, -0/+0Mark Twain the pwn'er of his time
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- funkytaco, on 07/08/2008, -1/+1Don't gotta love grammer nazzy's. I know howe to spell- I just want 2 annoy u.
- Malacandra95, on 07/08/2008, -1/+1Interesting. Everything I've found online about the "Crow Creek Massacre" suggests that it was a raid of one indigenous group against another. There's nothing I've seen to suggest that Europeans were involved at all.
Unless you're saying that only Europeans are capable of conducting a massacre against native Americans. In which case you may not be aware of just how bloody pre-Columbian history could be.
In any case, among the things that aren't necessarily true are things that are proffered as true because they run contrary to popular opinion. - MRintheKeys, on 07/08/2008, -0/+0Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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http://jeniya.info - yosserhughes, on 07/08/2008, -6/+5Why would anyone be shocked by the credulity of people? Organized religion has been doing it for thousands of years.
- TheCash, on 07/07/2008, -16/+5Other then the fact his name wasn't Mark Twain, you mean? Give Sam his due, use his real name.
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