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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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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hell, yeah, and God bless Demosthenes' pebbles.

Yes exactly! I didn't know that about him... thx for the links as well.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

*sigh* that story makes me wist about how Jean Chretien's opponents being negative about his facial paralysis/speech impediment issues was directly responsible for the implosion of their support and Chretien being elected PM of Canada in 1993. Would that things worked like that everywhere.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the interesting links.

John Stuart Mill did many more awesome things than be particularly ill on half a pint of shandy

Ill on a half-pint of shandy? I'm not sure I've heard of this before. It strikes me as a difficult feat, without the aid of some illness or allergy.
(And what did they make shandy of, in his time? I could see some sort of lemon-lime beverage existing, due to the presence of ginger beer in Tom Brown's Schooldays, but I don't believe lager-brewing was done in the UK until after his death.)

I didn't watch the debate, but am glad Biden handed her whatever he handed her. I'm a bit fearful it'll not make a difference with too much of the electorate.