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Cool things with words:

time_shark has been interviewed at Enter the Octopus.

John Stuart Mill did many more awesome things than be particularly ill on half a pint of shandy, especially the way Adam Gopnik writes about him.

That someone who up through college stuttered so severely that he was nicknamed "Dash Biden" not because he was lightning on the field but because that's how you spell out "B-B-B-Biden" can grow up into a politician whose prevailing silly faults are rambling on like there's no tomorrow and a tendency to blurt out whatever drops into his head as though he has no brain-to-mouth filter? Hell, yeah, and God bless Demosthenes' pebbles. Not to mention handing the governor of Alaska her hat, her head, or her ass, complete the metaphor of your choice. Obviously, the next step is to get him to speak at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children.

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Ill on a half-pint of shandy? I'm not sure I've heard of this before.

Monty Python, "The Bruces' Philosophers Song": John Stuart Mill, of his own free will / On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill . . . It may be a calumny, but it's a catchy one.

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Monty Python, "The Bruces' Philosophers Song"

*slaps forehead*

Of course! I only ever remember the first few lines of that one. Should've realised it, all the same.

I can sometimes be very literal-minded, in case you've somehow not noticed before.

It may be a calumny, but it's a catchy one.

Indeed. And the gentlemen in question are mostly of no disposition to object, so.

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Plato, they say, could stick it away...