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!  


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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 ~~



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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


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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.

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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]>
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