Music Inspires

I have been listening to a lot of music in the last week, as a way of clearing my mind, and helping focus some ideas that are simmering below the surface. As I was typing and updating my blog.... as usual I had the telly on in the background and they were showing Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).  Gosh it brought back plenty good memories..... the sense of patriotism.  The movie gives you a sense of awe and lets you have goose bumps all over.  Best part of it ... I ain't no Yank.

Right after that movie I had to take all my memories from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.  A story about the French Revolution.  It give you the same sense.  I can't believe I can be emotional about just simple patriotic songs.  For this day I had to put up three of the top songs from that musical on my blog!!  For Les Miserables  I read the book  - the original unabridged version about a million times ... and cried EVERY single time!  *sighs*  I sooo love history.

Miss Saigon, Evita is another one of Andrew Llyod Webber's musical that is base on history too.

I soooooooooo miss watching musical!  I loved EVERY one of them.

It was nice talking to Dickson about playing strategies for Scrabble.  For a 12 year old you are very good dear.  Heee heee.  I am also missing Princess badly.

So this whole day ....... its been NOTHING but Yankee Doodle Dandy and Les Miserables.  Ok ... I will try and sleep early tonight.  its 12am now.  I'll sleep after watching history on Baghdad.  Ok earlier if I can't keep my eyes open.   

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Writing Standard

You know .... I always love reading what you write but I sometimes find ~~~~~~~

Your articles may be undeveloped there are no additional information or explanation. Hey, you should add more factual information.

You have to be specific enough to invite others to understand and write on the issue or topics so there can be effective comparisons to other's experience. If an article includes too many points of focus, it is difficult to title effectively. An article that is too general should be broken up into several different and more focused articles. Or, you may need to just choose one focus and develop one point more thoroughly.

This concludes that the approach to some of your articles was not sufficiently focused.

Hey, don't stress lah ........ just my opinion. I have the faith that one day your dream when you were a little girl MIGHT one day be realised. You are good you know. BUT ...... you can be better. Focus darling.

Take care and all the best ya!

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Debate?

Wow!!  I can't believe what I was reading today when I took a look at my blog!!  I enjoyed reading all the articles you sent posting on my blog.  Especially the ranting back on forth.

As a rule of thumb one should always do their research and or make sure that their source is reliable with source of reference.  The email is still the same and do keep your articles coming.

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History of the Middle Finger by Cecil Adams

Uh huh.

Now for the facts. The "one-finger salute," or at any rate sexual gestures involving the middle finger, are thousands of years old. In Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution, Desmond Morris and colleagues note that the digitus infamis or digitus impudicus (infamous or indecent finger) is mentioned several times in the literature of ancient Rome. Turning to our vast classical library, we quickly turn up three references. Two are from the epigrammatic Martial: "Laugh loudly, Sextillus, when someone calls you a queen and put your middle finger out."

 

(The verse continues: "But you are no sodomite nor fornicator either, Sextillus, nor is Vetustina's hot mouth your fancy." Martial, and Roman poets in general, could be pretty out there, subject-matter-wise. Another verse begins: "You love to be sodomized, Papylus . . .")

In the other reference Martial writes that a certain party "points a finger, an indecent one, at" some other people. The historian Suetonius, writing about Augustus Caesar, says the emperor "expelled [the entertainer] Pylades . . . because when a spectator started to hiss, he called the attention of the whole audience to him with an obscene movement of his middle finger." Morris also claims that the mad emperor Caligula, as an insult, would extend his middle finger for supplicants to kiss.

It's not known whether one displayed the digitus infamis in the same manner that we (well, you) flip the bird today. In another of his books Morris describes a variety of sexual insults involving the middle finger, such as the "middle-finger down prod," the "middle-finger erect," etc., all of which are different from the classic middle-finger jerk. But let's not quibble. The point is, the middle-finger/phallus equation goes back way before the Titanic, the Battle of Agincourt, or probably even that time Sextillus cut off Pylades with his chariot. And I ain't kidding yew.

--CECIL ADAMS

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Agincourt Battle October 1415

An exhausted, sick and starving English army are faced by a confident foe outnumbering them four to one. Forced into battle and against all odds, they annihilate the French and slaughter the flower of French nobility.

Read up if you are interested.

http://www.geocities.com/beckster05/Agincourt/AgCampaign.html

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