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"...to quirt him with my riding crop.."
"I'm not gonna have to quirt him with my riding crop, am I?"
This is from "The Winslow Boy", a film from, I think, 1999. Ignoring that a Brit is not gonna use American Spanish, who gave David Mamet the right to turn this noun into a verb?
Even though the world knows that these areas are susceptible to this sort of thing, there apparently are no warning systems in place to attempt to mitigate a disaster like this even for those areas literally a 1000 km away, a distance that puts the inundation, I think, a couple of hours from the original seismic event. It is simply unconscionable that I could find out here in America about this threat before people who are actually at grave risk could.
This is from "The Winslow Boy", a film from, I think, 1999. Ignoring that a Brit is not gonna use American Spanish, who gave David Mamet the right to turn this noun into a verb?
Even though the world knows that these areas are susceptible to this sort of thing, there apparently are no warning systems in place to attempt to mitigate a disaster like this even for those areas literally a 1000 km away, a distance that puts the inundation, I think, a couple of hours from the original seismic event. It is simply unconscionable that I could find out here in America about this threat before people who are actually at grave risk could.
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" This is from "The Winslow Boy", a ... [/nq] Theodore Roosevelt. But that doesn't excuse its use in a quintessentially English story.
- " This is from "The Winslow Boy", a ...
- [/nq] Theodore Roosevelt.
- But that doesn't excuse its use in a quintessentially English story.
- We talked about the earlier version recently and I really recommend tipping Mamet's version in the bin.
- John Dean Oxford
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[nq:1]"I'm not gonna have to quirt him with my riding crop, am I?" This is from "The Winslow Boy", a ... Brit is not gonna use American Spanish, who gave David Mamet the right to turn this noun into a verb?[/nq]
Theodore Roosevelt. But that doesn't excuse its use in a quintessentially English story. We talked about the earlier version recently and I really recommend tipping Mamet's version in
Theodore Roosevelt. But that doesn't excuse its use in a quintessentially English story. We talked about the earlier version recently and I really recommend tipping Mamet's version in
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[nq:1]"I'm not gonna have to quirt him with my riding crop, am I?" This is from "The Winslow Boy", a ... Brit is not gonna use American Spanish, who gave David Mamet the right to turn this noun into a verb?[/nq]
MWCD records "quirt" being used as a verb as far back as 1887. Either David Mamet is one crafty individual or he isn't responsible. If anything, bust him for not getting his loops and
MWCD records "quirt" being used as a verb as far back as 1887. Either David Mamet is one crafty individual or he isn't responsible. If anything, bust him for not getting his loops and
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[nq:2]"I'm not gonna have to quirt him with my riding ... DavidMamet the right to turn this noun into a verb?[/nq]
[nq:1]MWCD records "quirt" being used as a verb as far back as 1887. Either David Mamet is one crafty individual ... 'tis better to be cropped than quirted. crop - a riding whip with a short straight stock and a loop[/nq]
[nq:1]MWCD records "quirt" being used as a verb as far back as 1887. Either David Mamet is one crafty individual ... 'tis better to be cropped than quirted. crop - a riding whip with a short straight stock and a loop[/nq]
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[nq:2]"I'm not gonna have to quirt him with my riding ... Mamet the right to turn this noun into a verb?[/nq]
[nq:1]Theodore Roosevelt. But that doesn't excuse its use in a quintessentially English story. We talked about the earlier version recently and I really recommend tipping Mamet's version in the bin.[/nq]
I don't know what Coop, our resident film critic who never watches a film twic
[nq:1]Theodore Roosevelt. But that doesn't excuse its use in a quintessentially English story. We talked about the earlier version recently and I really recommend tipping Mamet's version in the bin.[/nq]
I don't know what Coop, our resident film critic who never watches a film twic
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[nq:1]The Victorians were keen on American inventions; but I'm surprised this kind of pocketable whip doesn't seem to have existed in the old country until then. Was it perhaps regarded as a bit cruel?[/nq]
The same function was executed by what the British called a dogwhip, as used by huntsmen etc.
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
The same function was executed by what the British called a dogwhip, as used by huntsmen etc.
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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[nq:2]The Victorians were keen on American inventions; but I'm surprised ... until then. Was it perhaps regarded as a bit cruel?[/nq]
[nq:1]The same function was executed by what the British called a dogwhip, as used by huntsmen etc.[/nq]
But doesn't a dogwhip have a much longer lash than a quirt? (Quite content to be wrong on this, but I see the lash reaching out over the pack to where it
[nq:1]The same function was executed by what the British called a dogwhip, as used by huntsmen etc.[/nq]
But doesn't a dogwhip have a much longer lash than a quirt? (Quite content to be wrong on this, but I see the lash reaching out over the pack to where it
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[nq:2]Theodore Roosevelt. But that doesn't excuse its use in a ... and I really recommend tipping Mamet's version in the bin.[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't know what Coop, our resident film critic who never watches a film twice, will say, but I totally ... things. Now there's a film, Coop, I've seen a dozen times, each time enjoying it more, if anything, not less.[/nq]
IMDb has a couple TV versions o
[nq:1]I don't know what Coop, our resident film critic who never watches a film twice, will say, but I totally ... things. Now there's a film, Coop, I've seen a dozen times, each time enjoying it more, if anything, not less.[/nq]
IMDb has a couple TV versions o
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[nq:2]MWCD records "quirt" being used as a verb as far ... riding whip with a short straight stock and a loop[/nq]
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[nq:1]Even though the world knows that these areas are susceptible to this sort of thing, there apparently are no warning ... that I could find out here in America about this threat before people who are actually at grave risk could.[/nq]
We have electricity. Many of the affected areas do not, or, if they do, it's not widespread. For much less than the cost of Bush's war, we could fix that.
We have electricity. Many of the affected areas do not, or, if they do, it's not widespread. For much less than the cost of Bush's war, we could fix that.
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