Peninsula

[nq:1]Can somebody give me a definition of a peninsula? What is it? How can I recognize it?[/nq]
I think John done said it best: No man is an island.

http://www.genjerdan.com/nvm/tdis/tdis.html
Of course it's music...
...it has notes in it, doesn't it?

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[nq:2]Can somebody give me a definition of a peninsula? What is it? How can I recognize it?[/nq]
[nq:1]I think John done said it best: No man is an island. http://www.genjerdan.com/nvm/tdis/tdis.html Of course it's music...

[nq:2]I think John done said it best: No man is an island. http://www.genjerdan.com/nvm/tdis/tdis.html Of course it's music... ...it has notes in it, doesn't it?[/nq]
[nq:1]Who is "John done"? I know John Donne. I think he was the man who said this sentence, did he?[/nq]
Joh

[nq:1]Can somebody give me a definition of a peninsula?[/nq]
An island is a (relatively) small piece
of land wholly surrounded by water.
A peninsula is a piece of land
surrounded by water on three
sides, e.g. Nova Scotia or Sandy Hook.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

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[nq:2]I think John done said it best: No man is an island.[/nq]
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[nq:1]Who is "John done"? I know John Donne. I think he was the man who said this sentence, did he? Thank you![/nq]
This was a pun: a play on the similarity of "Donne" and "done".

There is a non-standard English dialect which replaces "did" with "done", and adds "done" to other

[nq:1]Who is "John done"? I know John Donne. I think he was the man who said this sentence, did he?[/nq]
Yes.
My reply was just a pun with a little obscure reference tacked on.

Paul Kantner (afaict) can be heard at the end of a Jefferson Airplane song:

"No man is an island."
(pause)
"No man is an island."
(pause)
"He's a peninsula."
(giggle giggle)

Once upon a 12/16/03 9:59 AM, in the land of
[nq:1]Can somebody give me a definition of a peninsula? What is it? How can I recognize it?[/nq]
It's the way to San Jose.

[nq:1]On 16 Dec 2003, Jens Mehlor wrote[/nq]
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[nq:2]Who is "John done"? I know John Donne. I think he was the man who said this sentence, did he? Thank you![/nq]
[nq:1]This was a pun: a play on the similarity of "Donne" and "done". There is a non-standard English dialect which ... play with John Donne's name: "John Donne said that..." "John don

[nq:2]Can somebody give me a definition of a peninsula? What is it? How can I recognize it?[/nq]
[nq:1]I think John done said it best: No man is an island.[/nq]
I didn't done said nothin'. Not nohow no way.

John Dean
Oxford
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I got it (the first time).
[nq:1]On 16 Dec 2003, Jens Mehlor wrote[/nq]
[nq:1]snip snip[/nq]
[nq:2]Who is "John done"? I know John Donne. I think he was the man who said this sentence, did he? Thank you![/nq]
[nq:1]This was a pun: a play on the similarity of "Donne" and "done". There is a non-standard English dialect which ... play with John Donne's name: "Joh