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General Interest => Let It Bleed => Topic started by: Anonymous on January 21, 2006, 10:27:00 PM

Title: Eudora
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2006, 10:27:00 PM

What's up with name change? Is it after Eudora Welty?

Title: Eudora
Post by: Antigen on January 22, 2006, 09:16:00 PM

Yeah, you know the story?

I would not let my children go to SW anymore than I would let them sleep in Michael Jackson's bed. I don't care if he was aquitted, it just ain't right.

AtomicAnt

Title: Eudora
Post by: Anonymous on January 22, 2006, 09:44:00 PM

It was a loooong time ago. Refresh my memory.

Title: Eudora
Post by: Antigen on January 23, 2006, 09:58:00 AM

Oh, there's a link to it in my new sig.

The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people.
--Karl Marx, German economist and political philosopher

Title: Eudora
Post by: starry-eyed pirate on January 31, 2006, 07:35:00 PM

Really...Eudora Welty ??  She was a famous author who killed herself by stickin' her head in the oven and leavin' the gas on.

Title: Eudora
Post by: Antigen on February 01, 2006, 03:24:00 PM

No way! I didn't know that. I only like the story about livin at the PO.

I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it

--Harry S. Truman

Title: Eudora
Post by: Antigen on February 01, 2006, 03:32:00 PM

Nope, complications from pneumonia
http://www.answers.com/topic/eudora-welty (http://www.answers.com/topic/eudora-welty)

Time's fun when you're having flies.
--Kermit the Frog

Title: Eudora
Post by: starry-eyed pirate on February 01, 2006, 04:09:00 PM

Quote

On 2006-02-01 12:32:00, Eudora wrote:

"Nope, complications from pneumonia

http://www.answers.com/topic/eudora-welty (http://www.answers.com/topic/eudora-welty)

Time's fun when you're having flies.
--Kermit the Frog

"

Hmmm...I stand corrected...but what famous female author am I thinkin' of then, that killed herself by stickin' her head in the oven ??  Maybe Welty tried to kill herself once and failed ??  I don't know...Can anyone clear up my confusion ??

Title: Eudora
Post by: Antigen on February 01, 2006, 06:02:00 PM

Sounds more like something she'd write about.

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, a self-derision, and self-mutilation.
--Freidrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

Title: Eudora
Post by: Anonymous on February 01, 2006, 06:12:00 PM

It was Ernest Hemmingway.

Title: Eudora
Post by: Antigen on February 01, 2006, 06:23:00 PM

Nope, shotgun. Here's a likely one:

Sylvia Plath - poet
 1963 --- suicide by inhaling gas from her oven.

The drug war places Leo in a round room and instructs him to piss in a corner.
--Antigen

Title: Eudora
Post by: starry-eyed pirate on February 01, 2006, 07:19:00 PM

Ohhhhh yeahhhhhh....now I remember.  

Yeah...Sylvia Plath, that's who I was thinkin' of.  We studied these 2 authors at the same time in high school.  I obviously got them confused.  Thanx for unconfusin' me.

Title: Eudora
Post by: Anonymous on February 01, 2006, 08:07:00 PM

It was Orwell, sir.

Title: Eudora
Post by: Antigen on February 01, 2006, 08:44:00 PM

Nope, tuberculosis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 669789.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/21/newsid_2669000/2669789.stm)

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert Heinlein

Title: Eudora
Post by: Anonymous on February 01, 2006, 08:49:00 PM

Orwell, wasn't he gay? I'm being serious..

Title: Eudora
Post by: Antigen on February 01, 2006, 08:49:00 PM

Dunno. I know he was a dyed in the wool Socialist.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
--Sigmund Freud, Austrian-born psychologist

Title: Eudora
Post by: Anonymous on February 01, 2006, 08:51:00 PM

Thanks Ginger :wink: , you're always on point!