tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post5561965928490831027..comments2024-03-27T07:37:20.144+00:00Comments on electrichalibut.co.uk: say what?electrichalibuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365477143816746297noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post-44727611477726052522006-12-20T11:32:00.000+00:002006-12-20T11:32:00.000+00:00"Miffy Meets Mencken", though - I reckon it could ...<b>"Miffy Meets Mencken"</b>, though - I reckon it could be a winner.electrichalibuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14365477143816746297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post-65696812643793453222006-12-20T11:31:00.000+00:002006-12-20T11:31:00.000+00:00Actually I don't know very much at all about Menck...Actually I don't know very much at all about Mencken; the second quote just caught my eye, and I nabbed the first one while I was there as well. <br /><br />My take, for what it's worth, is that he was a literary <i>provocateur</i> who just liked saying the unsayable to see what sort of reaction it would get. Whether he actually was a racist or not I have no idea - that's the trouble with someone like Mencken who was prone to taking up positions just to annoy people; it's hard to know what he actually thought about anything. <br /><br />Anyway, if I have to go and do a full biographical analysis of someone's acceptability before quoting them, then it's hardly worth the bother. I bet Solzhenitsyn nicked the odd potato from his fellow dissidents while he was in that gulag as well.....<br /><br />....mine's a port and brandy if you're going.electrichalibuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14365477143816746297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post-29303080964110786452006-12-20T10:12:00.000+00:002006-12-20T10:12:00.000+00:00You quote Mencken.
Now you quite obviously know fa...You quote Mencken.<br />Now you <i>quite obviously</i> know far more about this literary giant than I do - my favourite piece of writing is 'MIFFY GOES FLYING' as you know.<br /><br />But, wasn't Mencken a 'yank' of German (said in a Stan Boardman stylee) origin, who was both elitist and racist (obviously very confused), who poured scorn on the Anglo-Saxons (strange?) and whose brain eventually just shut daaaaan completely? (conveniently blamed on a 'stroke').<br /><br />[All gleaned from 'Wiki' of course - Miffy never met Mencken during his <i>crazy</i> airborne adventures....]The Black Rabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10041328339344144512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post-8088855559717527302006-12-20T09:53:00.000+00:002006-12-20T09:53:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.The Black Rabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10041328339344144512noreply@blogger.com