Image Faithburrowsart.jpg right 170px thumb 1930 Flapper Filosofy daily comic panel art by Faith Burrows , minus caption. Flapper Filosofy sometimes called Flapper Filosophy was a newspaper comic panel distributed by King Features Syndicate and the O Dell Newspaper Service. It ran during the flapper era of the 1920s into the early 1930s. The art was by Faith Burrows . Each panel exhibited a flapper wearing one of the current fashions, ref http www.comicstripfan.com newspaper f flapperfilosofy.htm Comic Strip Fan ref with a witticism typed at the bottom. ref http cartoons.osu.edu finding aids sfaca f.html Ohio State ref ref http cartoons.osu.edu finding aids sfaca html 1001 1100 1060.html Ohio State ref Burrows drew her panels at an image size of 3 6 on Bristol boards measuring 3 6 . Burrows series ran in competition for a time with Ethel Hays similarly themed and well established Flapper Fanny Says panel from United Media NEA . As writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anita Loos , and illustrators such as Burrows, Hays, Russell Patterson and John Held Jr. popularized the flapper look and lifestyle through their works, flappers came to be seen as attractive, reckless and independent. References reflist See also Ethel Hays King Features Syndicate Comics Category Comic strips started in the 1920s Category American comic strips comic strip stub ... more details
Lazzi from the Italian language Italian lazzo , a joke or witticism is an improvised comic dialogue or action commonly used in the Commedia dell arte . Most English speaking troupes use the Italian plural lazzi as the singular and lazzis for the plural. During improvised performances a lazzi may be used to fill time or to ensure a certain frequency of laughs in a show. For practical purposes a lazzi may be any bit of business that may be easily recalled and performed in another situation, somewhat like a catch phrase. In any given troupe, the senior player could have well over one hundred lazzis at his her disposal. The performer would not only have these well rehearsed but would also pass them on to future generations within the troupe. As soon as a lazzi is initiated by one player, all of the other players must fall in, thus performing a lazzi requires every member of the troupe to know the routine as well as great teamwork. In Commedia dell arte, the Harlequin or Zanni would most likely have these lazzis at their disposal. Also, lazzis movements are normally very exaggerated. Works cited Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521434378. Duchartre, Pierre Louis. 1929. The Italian Comedy . Unabridged republication. New York Dover, 1966. ISBN 0486216799. Gordon, Mel. 1983. Lazzi The Comic Routines of the Commedia dell arte Commedia dell Arte . New York Performing Arts Journal Publications. ISBN 0933826699. Versan , dave 1332 kings lyn corn exchange External links http sites.google.com site italiancommedia lazzi A list of lazzi http web.archive.org web 20021206192156 www.austincommedia.org library.html Austin Commedia s Library , including Lazzi from the http www.archive.org web web.php Wayback Machine . Category Commedia dell arte Category Jokes de Lazzi es Lazzi fr Lazzi pt Lazzi ru uk ... more details
Image Rakosligeti Magyarok Nagyasszonya romai katolikus templom.JPG right thumb 300px Magyarok Nagyasszonya Roman Catholic church R kosliget is a part of the 17th district of Budapest since January 1, 1950. It is known to locals as Liget History In 1896 The Workmen s Insurance Society Munk sbiztos t P nzt r started to build a homes for workmen in an unpopulated neighbourhood of R koskereszt r . The founders were unable to finance the constructions so the homes were eventually bought by middle class families mainly of merchants, civil servants, and craftsmen. The growing settlement became independent of R koskereszt r 1907 . In 1930 it had a population of 3112 inhabitants and the number of craftsmen was over 100. Its main street that comes from R koskereszt r called Ferihegyi street divides it into two parts indicated by the numbering of the surrounding streets on the left there are streets identified by Roman odd numbers I., III., V., etc. utca whereas on the right are the even numbered streets II., IV., etc. utca . A common local witticism is to call these streets avenues referring to the similar street numbering of New York, for example V. utca Fifth Avenue. R kosliget was attached to Budapest on 1 January 1950 as part of the 17th district. Culture R kosliget has its own theatre named after Gyula G zon , a famous Hungarian actor who lived there. It also has its own community center called http www.csekohaz.hu Csekovszky rp d M vel d si H z . Famous Ligeti people G zon Gyula great Hungarian actor Csekovszky rp d ceramist Gregor J zsef well known Hungarian bass opera singer See also R kosmente References Antal Domb v ri Domb v ri Antal R kosliget t rt nete 1907 1950. R kosmenti Helyt rt neti F zetek V. vf. 1. sz., 2007 reflist coord 47 29 25 N 19 15 36 E region HU type city source GNS enwiki display title DEFAULTSORT Rakosliget Category R kosmente Category Neighbourhoods of Budapest Budapest geo stub eo R kosliget fr R kosliget hu R kosliget ... more details
File Ajdovi zganci.JPG thumb 200px Ajdovi ganci Buckwheat ganci with cracklings ganci is a dish in Slovenia n and Croatia n cuisine, known as Sterz in Austria, pura on the Croatian coast, and also known in northern Italy. It s similar to polenta , although prepared with finer grains. It s made from maize , wheat or buckwheat flour , water, cooking oil and salt , which is cooked for fifteen minutes on a low boil. The lump is then crumbled onto a plate for serving. Softer ganci is called Styria n style in Slovenia. ganci can be served with milk Sln. ganci z mlekom , honey, crackling s, or runny yogurt. ganci with cabbage or blood sausage is a traditional Slovenian breakfast dish. A savory version is served with meat as part of a main dish. ganci in Slovenia ganci was a typical everyday meal of the central and Alps Alpine part of Slovenia. Its popularity and common use is implied in the following witticism from the 19th century ganci are the pedestal of Carniola . This attitude implies its crucial meaning for the survival of the population. Freshly boiled ganci could be served as breakfast or lunch, or warmed up or toasted for dinner or breakfast the following day. Balthasar Hacquet 1739 1815 mentions that ganci was served with sauerkraut in Upper Carniola. ref name Taste Taste Slovenia. Bogataj Janez, 2007. Rokus Gifts. ISBN 978 961 6531 39 9 ref The oldest preparation method explains the word ganci . The word ganci is derived from the Slovenian verb gati to burn, to toast . ref name Taste See also Portal Food Slovenian cuisine Croatian cuisine Austrian cuisine br References Reflist External links http www.slovenia.si tourism cuisine recipes 2007100310045653 Buckwheat ganci Category Slovenian cuisine Zganci Category Croatian cuisine Zganci bar Sterz de Sterz ... more details
Orphan date November 2006 Melitzah is a Middle Ages medieval Hebrew language Hebrew literary device in which a mosaic of fragments and phrases from the Hebrew Bible as well as from rabbinic literature or the liturgy is fitted together to form a new statement of what the author intends to express at the moment. In Hebrew the word melitzah means joke or witticism. Melitzah , in effect, recalls Walter Benjamin s desire to someday write a work composed entirely of quotations. At any rate, it was a literary device employed widely in medieval Hebrew poetry and prose, then through the movement known as Haskalah , Hebrew for enlightenment, and even among nineteenth century writers both modern and traditional. What is so special about this particular literary device is that in melitzah the sentences compounded out of quotations mean what they say but below and beyond the surface they reverberate with associations to the original texts, and this is what makes them psychologically so interesting and valuable. In the transposition of a quotation from the original in this case canonical text to a new one, the meaning of the original context may be retained, altered, or subverted. In any case the original context trails along as an invisible interlinear presence, and the readers, like the writer, must be aware of these associations if they are to savor the new text to the full. A partial analogy may be found in T. S. Eliot s use of quotations in The Waste Land . If he is successful in his use of melitzah , the author will arouse in the reader a particular set of images and associations which will add a certain texture and tone to what is being described the chordal accompaniment, so to speak, to the melodic line. External links An example of the modern, secular use of melitzah is the book http www.archive.org details SignificantMoments Significant Moments written by Gary Freedman exclusively from literary and historical texts. Bibliography Spence, D.P. Narrative Truth and Histori ... more details
The past exonerative grammatical tense tense is a witticism coined by William Schneider of the New York Times to describe the rhetoric al tactic of speaking in the passive voice in order to distance oneself from blame. ref cite web url http www.nytimes.com 2007 03 14 washington 14mistakes.html? r 1&oref slogin title Familiar Fallback for Officials Mistakes Were Made publisher New York Times date March 14, 2007 ref The tactic is most famous for being invoked by politicians. The classic example of this usage was U.S. president Ronald Regan s statement ... mistakes were made ... , first made in a December 6, 1986 address to the nation ref cite web url http www.miamiherald.com 1986 12 07 457328 reagan mistakes were made.html title Reagan Mistakes were made publisher Miami Herald date December 7, 1986 ref and then again in his January 1987 State of the Union Address ref cite web url http www.presidency.ucsb.edu ws index.php?pid 34430 axzz1fd2ofBQV title Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the State of the Union date January 27, 1987 ref to describe the actions of officials in his administration regarding Iran obviously, but not explicitly, referring to the Iran contra affair , where his administration sold arms to Iran to fund the contras in Nicaragua. Other examples http articles.sfgate.com 1997 01 30 opinion 17741719 1 campaign financing dnc finance reform U.S. president Clinton , regarding campaign financing abuses, January 1997, SFGate http www.washingtonpost.com wp dyn content article 2007 03 13 AR2007031300776.html U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales on March 13, 2007, Washington Post http www.number10.gov.uk news transcript of the pms al jazeera interview with sir david frost U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron describing Guantanamo Bay, Al Jazeera interview, September 9, 2011 See also Non apology apology Notes reflist References http www.economist.com blogs democracyinamerica 2007 03 in brief 11.cfm Passively fascinating , The Economist http www.cbsnews.com ... more details
Unreferenced date April 2008 Pierre B nard 1898 22 December 1946 was a France French journalist . B nard was born in 1898 his father was clerk to an attorney. He began as a journalist in the 1920s, for L uvre French newspaper L uvre , where he held the judicial brief, and for Bonsoir . He was the author of upbeat novels and of many prefaces for works on contemporary law, at the same time doing large scale reportage s for various weekly publications including Gringoire from which he distanced himself in 1934 . He joined the Canard encha n in 1923, and became editor in chief there in 1936. During this period he was opposed to Jean Galtier Boissi re , on the issue of French military intervention in Spain . During the Second World War , he participated in the beginning of 1944 in the underground paper of D fense de la France . He also wrote in Combat French newspaper Combat and in the clandestine les Lettres fran aises Lettres fran aises his articles were unsigned but written in an a characteristic style, identifiable by his pun s, witticism s and incessant carriage returns. After the liberation of France B nard went back to editing weekly papers, but died shortly after on 22 December 1946. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Benard, Pierre ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1898 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 22 December 1946 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Benard, Pierre Category French journalists Category 1898 births Category 1946 deaths France journalist stub fr Pierre B nard ... more details
Notable January 2011 date January 2011 unsourced date January 2011 Infobox Television show name Bubble Up Video image caption format Music video creator Ali Tim & Samia Baleegh starring Various artists country Pakistan PK network AAG and GEO TV first aired 14 November 2010 Bubble Up Video is an AAG Geo TV program filler which shows popped up bubble slides called info nuggets throughout the music video. These slides contain information, facts & figures related to the making of the music video, the band, artists, places etc. The scripting of the pop up slides is done by Samia Baleegh & Ali Tim whereas it is edited by Baqir Rafiq using Adobe Final Cut Pro . Concept The concept of Bubble Up Video is to create an entertaining visual experience for the viewers, enlightening them with little bits of facts & figures of their favorite songs. The Bubble Up slides are extremely engaging & vibrant bubbles with pop up pictures & sound effects making it a perfect blend of information with witticism. Schedule & Videos Bubble Up Video is a filler that runs throughout the day on AAG TV . Only Pakistani artists & their videos are played. Till date, following 12 videos have been aired. Fuz n Khamaj Ali Zafar Rangeen Overload Pakistani band Overload Pichal Pairee Josh band Josh Mahi Ve Abrar Ul Haq Islamabad Ali Azmat Garaj Baras Atif Aslam Kyun Chor Gaye Strings band Strings Ab Khud Kuch Karna Parega Shehzad Roy Laga Reh Noori Mere Loge Annie Pakistani singer Annie Tenu Takiya Call band Call Laree Chootee External links http www.aag.tv AAG Website http www.facebook.com pages Bubble Up Video 156290811079132 Facebook Fan Page http www.twitter.com AagTvChannel Official Twitter http www.alitim.info Ali Tim Official Website http www.alizafar.net Ali Zafar Official Website http www.planetjosh.com JoSH Official Website http www.overloadbeats.com Overload Official Website http www.aadeez.com Atif Aslam Official Website Categories Category Music videos Music video stub ... more details
About the form of humor other uses Wit disambiguation Wit is a form of intellectual humor , and a wit is someone skilled in making witty remarks. Forms of wit include the quip and repartee . Forms of wit As in the wit of Dorothy Parker s set, the Algonquin Round Table , witty remarks may be intentionally cruel as in many epigram s , and perhaps more genius ingenious than funny. A quip is an observation or saying that has some wit but perhaps descends into sarcasm , or otherwise is short of point a witticism also suggests the diminutive. Repartee is the wit of the quick answer and capping comment the snappy comeback and neat retort. Oscar Wilde Wilde I wish I d said that. James McNeill Whistler Whistler You will, Oscar, you will . ref Monty Python Oscar Wilde sketch ref Example of a dark humour dark witty quote Give a man a match, and he ll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he ll be warm for the rest of his life. cn date November 2011 Wit in poetry Wit in poetry is characteristic of metaphysical poetry as a style, and was prevalent in the time of English playwright William Shakespeare Shakespeare , who admonished pretension with the phrase Better a witty fool than a foolish wit . ref name Salingar1976 cite book last Salingar first Leo title Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy url http books.google.com books?id edTs2R0BpTUC&pg PA245 accessdate 6 October 2010 year 1976 publisher Cambridge University Press isbn 9780521291132 pages 245 6 ref It may combine word play with conceptual thinking, as a kind of verbal display requiring attention, without intending to be laugh aloud funny in fact wit can be a thin disguise for more poignant feelings that are being versified. English poet John Donne is the representative of this style of poetry. ref name Daley1990 cite book last Daley first Koos title The triple fool a critical evaluation of Constantijn Huygens translations of John Donne url http books.google.com books?id 3bRaAAAAMAAJ accessdate 6 October 2010 y ... more details
italicstitle about the American children s magazine the 19th century American magazine The Cricket magazine Cricket is an illustrated literature literary magazine for child ren published in the United States , founded in September 1973 by Marianne Carus, whose intent was to create The New Yorker for children. Marianne Carus still serves as the magazine s editing editor in chief. Each issue of Cricket is 48 pages. The magazine is published nine times a year monthly, with some of the summer months combined by the Carus Publishing Company of Peru, Illinois . Its target audience is children from 9 to 14 years old. Until March 1995, Cricket was published by the Open Court Publishing Company of La Salle, Illinois , now part of Carus. Cricket publishes original Short story stories , poetry poems , folklore folk tales , articles and drawing illustrations by such notable artists as Trina Schart Hyman , the magazine s art director from 1973 to 1979. Carus has solicited materials from well known authors and illustrators, including Lloyd Alexander , Isaac Bashevis Singer , Hilary Knight , William Saroyan , Ursula K. Le Guin , Eric Carle , Wallace Tripp , Charles Ghigna and Paul O. Zelinsky . Cricket also runs contests and publishes work by its readers. Hyman contributed to the magazine until her death in 2004. One distinct feature of Cricket is the illustrated cast of recurring characters that appears in the margins of each issue, similar to a comic strip . These characters include Cricket insect Cricket , Coccinellidae Ladybug , and other friends, most of whom are also insect s. The characters are involved in a storyline that runs throughout the issue, but also comment on the articles above them. They define difficult word s, draw attention to unusual facts, and otherwise annotation annotate the magazine s content. On the last page of each issue is the Old Cricket Says column, in which Old Cricket points out a bit of wisdom or a witticism, or introduces themes to be explored i ... more details
Refimprove date May 2008 Deleted image removed Image Talking moose.png left The Talking Moose is an animated talking utility for the Apple Macintosh. It was created in 1986 by Canadian programmer Steven Halls. It is the first animated talking agent on a personal computer and featured a moose that would appear at periodic intervals with some joke or witticism. The moose would also comment on system events and user actions and could speak what a user typed using the Moose Proof desk accessory. The moose was the first facially animated talking agent with lip synchronization and it became the seed idea for future talking agents, such as Office Assistant Clippy the paperclip in Microsoft Windows, and Prody Parrot from Creative Soundblaster. The Talking Moose used Apple s Macintalk software, the first version of which famously made the original Never trust a computer you can t lift speech at the Macintosh launch in 1984. Apple s development of Macintalk had petered out and they granted Halls permission to use, and continue refining, the software for free. Halls did not just improve the fluidity of the speech and the reliability of the interpretation but gave the moose a library of comedic observations and wisecracks which gave it a distinct character. The original Moose was distributed with the Bob LeVitus book Stupid Mac Tricks in 1989. Later versions allowed full speech integration for software developers and even a HyperCard plugin. In the 1990s, development of the program was taken over by Uli Kusterer under the name Uli s Moose for which he later obtained Steve Halls blessing. This Moose was included in Bob LeVitus iMac and iBook book I Didn t Know You Could Do That . Moose Versions Version 1.0 of the Talking Moose was released in 1986 by Steve Halls. Version 2.0 was released in 1987, and ran on Macintosh systems 6.0.4 7.1. The Macintalk voice used for the Moose was Fred . Baseline Publishing eventually commercially published the talking moose, and released version 4 ... more details
Image Ethel Hays Flapper Fanny Says.jpg right 210px thumb Ethel Hays Flapper Fanny Says original art 1926 The shoe clerk is often successful because he starts at the foot. Flapper Fanny Says from United Media Newspaper Enterprise Association was a single panel daily cartoon series starting in about 1924, ref Children of the Yellow Kid The Evolution of the American Comic Strip . Robert C. Harvey Seattle Frye Art Museum, University of Washington Press, 1998 . ISBN 0 295 97778 7, p. 58 ref with a Sunday page following in 1928. Each episode featured a flapper illustration and a witticism. ref 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics An Illustrated Encyclopedia , edited by Maurice Horn. New York Gramercy Books, 1996. 413 p., ill. some col. Includes bibliographical references p. 405 406 . p. 116 ISBN 0 517 12447 5 ref It continued into the 1940s as Flapper Fanny . At the start, the panel was drawn by notable illustrator Ethel Hays , who employed an Art Nouveau style. Flapper Fanny Says was part of a wave of popular culture that focused on the flapper look and lifestyle. Through many films and the works of illustrators such as Hays and Russell Patterson , as well as the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anita Loos , flappers came to be seen as attractive, reckless and independent. Because NEA often sold whole packages of features to individual newspapers, Flapper Fanny Says gained widespread distribution almost from the start, appearing daily in perhaps 500 papers within its first year. ref Allan Holtz Holtz, Allan . Ethel, Great Female Cartoonist, Hogan s Alley magazine Hogan s Alley 13 ISSN 1074 7354, Atlanta, Georgia Bull Moose Publishing Corp., Atlanta GA. Ethel, Great Female Cartoonist by Allan Holtz ref Spin offs and influence Despite this immediate success, Hays&mdash finding the daily workload too heavy after the birth of her second child&mdash turned Flapper Fanny Says over to promising newcomer Gladys Parker around 1931. Parker gave it a more cartoony style , ref ... more details
wiktionarypar sacred cow Sacred cow is an idiom , a figurative reference to Cattle in religion sacred cows in some religion s. This idiom is thought to originate in American English , ref name UK1 cite web title Sacred cow publisher The Phrase Finder url http www.phrases.org.uk meanings 309250.html accessdate 9 September 2010 ref although similar or even identical idioms occur in many other languages. The idiom is based on the popular understanding of the elevated place of cows in Hinduism and appears to have emerged in America in the late 19th century. ref name UK1 A literal Cattle in religion sacred cow or sacred bull is an actual cow or bull that is treated with sincere reverence. A figurative sacred cow is something else that is considered immune from question or criticism, especially unreasonably so. ref http dictionary.reference.com browse sacred 20cow sacred cow Definitions from Dictionary.com Bot generated title ref ref http www.phrases.org.uk meanings 309250.html Sacred cow Bot generated title ref Paradox There is an element of paradox in the concept of reverence for a sacred cow, as illustrated in a comment about the novelist V. S. Naipaul V. S. Naipaul ... has the ability to distinguish the death of an ordinary ox, which, being of concern to no one, may be put quickly out of its agony, from that of a sacred cow, which must be solicitously guarded so that it can die its agonizing death without any interference. ref cite book url http books.google.com books?id qYDzjGVWs0gC&pg PA185 title Reading against culture ideology and narrative in the Japanese novel last Pollack first David publisher Cornell University Press page 185 year 1992 isbn 9780801480355 ref Similar and related idioms Numerous irreverent witticism s have been published that refer to sacred cows, including Irreverence is our only sacred cow , motto of The Realist , an irreverent magazine. ref cite book last DeMott first Benjamin last2 Berger first2 Arthur Asa title Supergrow essays and reports ... more details
Bigfinishbox title Invaders from Mars series Doctor Who number 28 featuring Eighth Doctor br Charley Pollard cover Invaders from Mars Doctor Who .jpg writer Mark Gatiss director Mark Gatiss producer Gary Russell br Jason Haigh Ellery executive producer Jacqueline Rayner production code 8F set between Minuet in Hell and br The Chimes of Midnight length 1 hour 34 mins date January 2002 Invaders from Mars is a Big Finish Productions List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish audio drama based on the long running United Kingdom British science fiction on television science fiction television series Doctor Who . This audio drama was later broadcast on BBC 7 in four weekly parts starting on the 29 October 29th of October 2005 and was later rebroadcast on the same channel once more beginning on the 19 November 19th of November 2006 . Summary In Manhattan 1938 , the Eighth Doctor and Charley meet a crooked gangster , a Russia n spy, a sinister fifth column ist and Orson Welles . Welles s broadcast of The War of the Worlds radio War of the Worlds is just a story, but maybe there really are aliens at loose. Cast The Doctor Doctor Who Doctor Paul McGann Charley Pollard India Fisher Mouse Ian Hallard Ellis Mark Benton John Houseman Jonathan Rigby Orson Welles David Benson Bix Biro Paul Putner Don Chaney Simon Pegg Glory Bee Jessica Stevenson Cosmo Devine John Arthur Winkler Ian Hallard Trivia Mark Benton played conspiracy theorist Clive in Rose Doctor Who Rose . The Invaders from Mars was the original title for the 1970 Third Doctor story, The Ambassadors of Death . In episode one, Houseman reads from the War of the Worlds radio play. Welles responds with Who wrote this crap? I certainly didn t write this crap. Houseman responds You will, Orson, you will. This is a reference to a famous witticism by James McNeill Whistler , who said You will, Oscar you will to Oscar Wilde when Wilde said I wish I d said that . This incident was dramatised in the Oscar Wilde Sketch in an episo ... more details
for the rugby league footballer for Ireland, and Treaty City Titans Steve Nolan BLP sources date May 2011 Infobox Person name Stephen Nolan image Stephen nolan.jpg imagesize caption birth date 1973 birth place Belfast , Northern Ireland . death date death place death cause occupation Radio and television presenter known for title children spouse salary networth website Stephen Nolan , born Belfast in 1973, is a radio ref name Shillam2003 cite book last Shillam first Tania title Radio url http books.google.com books?id wk6cUgxBhsMC&pg PA61 accessdate 15 May 2011 date 2003 11 01 publisher Crimson Publishing isbn 9780856609022 pages 61 ref and television presenter for BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Radio Five Live . He was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution , and Queen s University Belfast where he studied French language French and Business Studies . Broadcasting career Radio Following the launch of his talk radio career on the commercial station Belfast CityBeat , Nolan s success at the Sony Radio Academy Awards Sony Awards persuaded BBC Northern Ireland to poach him for their output. Since 2003, he has presented The Stephen Nolan Show on BBC Radio Ulster . Since July 2005, he has presented his own weekend phone in show for BBC Radio Five Live , airing from 10pm to 1am every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as one of the few Northern Irish presenters on mainstream UK radio. In doing so he spends his weekends in Manchester , from where the programmes are broadcast. In the handover to Gerry Anderson broadcaster Gerry Anderson show at half past ten each morning Nolan is usually on the end of a putdown or witticism from Mr Anderson. In 2006 he was involved in a charity boxing match with Gerry Anderson in aid of Children in Need. Stephen Nolan was knocked down from a stray uppercut from Gerry Anderson. Citation needed date April 2007 In May 2008 Stephen featured heavily on Chris Moyles BBC Radio 1 Radio 1 Breakfast Show for the line That is not my name in his heav ... more details
Theodorus lang el was a ancient greece Greek sophist and orator of the late 5th century BC, born of Byzantium . Theodorus is noted by Plato in his ironic survey of oratory in the Phaedrus Plato Phaedrus for mentioning confirmation and further confirmation , and calls Theodorus that most excellent artist in words. Phaedrus responds in turn by calling Theodorus worthy. ref Plato, http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Plat. Phaedrus 266e Phaedrus 266e. Tr. Harold N. Fowler, 1925 ref Quintillian references Plato s usage in his history of Oratory in the third book of the Instiutio Oratoria . The Loeb Classical Library Loeb translation of the passage gives us the perhaps more appropriate reading of word artificer for Plato s witticism. ref Quintillian, http penelope.uchicago.edu Thayer E Roman Texts Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 3A .html 1 Institutio Oratoria 3.1.11. Tr. H.E. Butler, 1920 ref Diogenes Laertius refers to him in a similarly cursorial manner. ref Diogenes Laertius, ii. 104 ref Aristotle places him beside Tisias and Thrasymachus as the key movers in the history of rhetoric. Quoting the W. A. Pickard Cambridge text For it may be that in everything, as the saying is the first start is the main part ... This is in fact what has happened in regard to rhetorical speeches and to practically all the other arts for those who discovered the beginnings of them advanced them in all only a little way, whereas the celebrities of to day are the heirs so to speak of a long succession of men who have advanced them bit by bit, and so have developed them to their present form, Tisias coming next after the first founders, then Thrasymachus after Tisias, and Theodorus next to him, while several people have made their several contributions to it and therefore it is not to be wondered at that the art has attained considerable dimensions. ref Aristotle, On Sophistical Refutations 183b22 34. Tr. Pickard Cambridge, 1941 ref The later Peripatetic school Peripatetic ... more details
Thoreauviana expanded Core Reform and the Reformers is an essay written by Henry David Thoreau . The essay was never published in his lifetime, and has been cobbled together from existing lecture notes that Thoreau himself picked over for his other writings, such as Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers . The essay reflects Thoreau s frustration with the multitude of reformers ndash prohibitionists, utopian communists, free love advocates, religious revivalists, and the like ndash who were roaming about New England at the time hawking their prescriptions for a better world. Thoreau s audience in Boston were of the open minded liberal variety ndash people who were typically the most interested in and the most vulnerable to the charms of these reformers ndash and so Thoreau begins his lecture slyly with a fairly superficial but probably sympathetic attack on the Reformer s great enemy the Conservative. Further disarming his audience with a witticism or two, he then turns on them by spending the rest of the lecture attacking the major genre of lecturers that they more typically come to hear the Reformer. His major complaint is much the same as the one he expressed when reviewing John Etzler s technological utopianism see Paradise to be Regained ndash that the utopianists, and Reformers in general, are too concerned with exerting control over and reshaping The World, or Society, or The Government, or The Family, and not concerned enough about better using the control they already exercise over themselves blockquote p The Reformer who comes recommending any institution or system to the adoption of men, must not rely solely on logic and argument, or on eloquence and oratory for his success, but see that he represents one pretty perfect institution in himself, the center and circumference of all others, an erect man. p p I ask of all Reformers, of all who are recommending Temperance, Justice, Charity, Peace, the Family, Community or Associative life, not to ... more details
File Mesa de Noticias.jpg thumb 240px Juan Carlos Mesa top row, third from left and the cast of Mesa de Noticias . Juan Carlos Mesa born May 15, 1930 is a well known Argentine humorist, screenwriter and director. Life and work Juan Carlos Mesa was born in C rdoba, Argentina in 1930. Following a stint as a writer in Uruguay for a sitcom , Telecataplum , He began his career in Television in Argentina Argentine television in 1967 as a junior writer for comedian Carlos Bal and first collaborated on a film script in 1971, with Enrique Carreras family film family comedy , El veraneo de los Campanelli . He was reunited with Carreras for the film s 1972 sequel, wrote later that year for Fernando Siro in his picaresque comedy, Autocine mon amour , and in 1976, earned his first credit as lead writer in Palito Ortega s Dos locos en el aire . ref name imdb http www.imdb.com name nm0581762 IMDb Juan Carlos Mesa ref Writing for leading local television comic Tato Bores in 1980, Mesa first became widely known as a performer on the Communications in Argentina Radio radio , rather than on the screen, with his popular Radio Mitre show, Tenis de mesa the name of the show table tennis was a play on his own last name, a witticism that became part of his act on many of his subsequent productions. ref name nacion http www.lanacion.com.ar nota.asp?nota id 857268 La Naci n Mesa animada es icon ref Perhaps the most successful of these was Mesa de noticias News Desk . The primetime sitcom, which premiered in 1983, set Mesa in a struggling News broadcasting network news program as its hapless programming director , and ran until 1987, appealing to audiences of an unusually varied demographic. ref name radio http hombresderadio.blogspot.com 2001 07 juan carlos mesa estoy ms cerca de.html Gustavo Masutti Llach. Hombres y mujeres de la radio Juan Carlos Mesa es icon ref His leading co star, Italian actor Gianni Lunadei , joined Mesa in 1991 for a less successful spin off, El gordo y el flaco aki ... more details
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