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2:43 AM

Q: Context and meaning of "in the Lady Bracknell understanding of the word"

Here is a paragraph from The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel. "Quite aside from the de-naturing of contemporary childhood, more about collecting apps for Apple iPhones than scrumping apples, there was always the terrible destructivity of butterfly collecting. Due to the collectors the ineffab...

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Tsundoku

10:15 AM

Somebody answered a question before I considered asking it on Literature SE ;-) 500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”, Ars Technica, 07.04.2020.

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Napoleon Wilson

11:33 AM

Isn't it awful when that happens?

Gareth Rees

11:56 AM

It might be worth asking anyway because the Ars Technica article is a bit thin on detail — in an answer on literature.se we would be able to provide more context and locate the manuscript

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Long John Silver

3:00 PM

Q: I'm looking for a comic where Huey, Duey or Louie has a girlfriend

It's a series of still images (comic). I believe it's quite old, probably from between 1960-1980. It's about Huey, Duey and Louie. Two of them are being sort of rowdy, fighting, doing mischief, etc. and messing up their clothes. Then someone says (roughly) that one of the brothers has a girlfrien...