In our proper defense of WSC, let's not perpetuate another falsehood that the Puritans were killjoys. Mencken was many things, but a scholar of Puritanism he was not!
-------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Sandy Finlayson Director of Library Services & Professor of Theological Bibliography Westminster Theological Seminary Philadelphia, PA "You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians." ~~ Monty Python ~~ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carey Stronach Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Outraged, amused, or..? They bring to mind a comment by H.L. Mencken about Puritanism and the fear that someone somehow might be having fun. CES ----- Original Message ----- From: Brett Weiss <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:17:00 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Outraged, amused, or..? On board the Disney cruise ships, there is a wall-sized picture of Walt Disney sitting at a piano. They removed his cigarette and a glass of whiskey from the picture. Take care. Brett Weiss Chung & Press, LLC 6404 Ivy Lane, Suite 408 Greenbelt, Maryland 20770 V: 301.924.4400 F: 240.627.4186 E: [email protected] W: www.BankruptcyLawMaryland.com B: www.BankruptcyLawNetwork.com/author/bweiss ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Selected as a 2007-8-9-10 Super Lawyer for Maryland and the District of Columbia Maryland, DC and Federal Bars ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maryland State Chair, National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Founding Member, Bankruptcy Law Network ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /The information transmitted in this message is intended to be privileged and confidential and for the use of only the recipient. Any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited by anyone other than the intended recipient. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender. Receipt by anyone other than the intended recipient is not a waiver of the attorney-client or work-product privileges./ On 7/14/10 10:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I hate to say it, Carey, but this sort of stuff is practically /être > de rigueur /these days. The only thing that works is to be savage - > calling them intellectually inferior for trying to rewrite history. I > hate not being nice, but being nice in these cases is water off a > duck's back. > Jonathan Hayes > > > --- On *Wed, 7/14/10, Carey Stronach /<[email protected]>/* wrote: > > > From: Carey Stronach <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Outraged, amused, or..? > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 7:17 PM > > This is as outrageous as Stalin having Trotsky's picture > airbrushed out of old Soviet photos. An abomination! > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Geoff Zimmerman <[email protected] > <http://us.mc1803.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>> > To: [email protected] > > <http://us.mc1803.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:32:03 -0000 (UTC) > Subject: [ChurchillChat] Outraged, amused, or..? > > What do you think of this? > Geoff Zimmerman > [email protected] > <http://us.mc1803.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ChurchillChat" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > > <http://us.mc1803.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > <http://us.mc1803.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ChurchillChat" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > > <http://us.mc1803.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > <http://us.mc1803.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ChurchillChat" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. 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