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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Get the dog and bone love!
This is a great parody of EF's Live the Language series. I love seeing great British slang as visuals.
What's the word?
The chief officer of an organization (as a corporation or institution) usually entrusted with the direction and administration of its policies
http://www.merriam-webster.com
The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom only -- it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
If that's an honor surely 'tis a greater
To have been a simple and undamned spectator.
Behold in me a man of mark and note
Whom no elector e'er denied a vote! --
An undiscredited, unhooted gent
Who might, for all we know, be President By acclimation.
Cheer, ye varlets, cheer --
I'm passing with a wide and open ear!
Jonathan Fomry
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/
http://www.merriam-webster.com
If that's an honor surely 'tis a greater
To have been a simple and undamned spectator.
Behold in me a man of mark and note
Whom no elector e'er denied a vote! --
An undiscredited, unhooted gent
Who might, for all we know, be President By acclimation.
Cheer, ye varlets, cheer --
I'm passing with a wide and open ear!
Jonathan Fomry
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/
Monday, December 3, 2012
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