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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Neocon who wrote (48306)8/4/1999 8:11:00 AM
From: MNI  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
"Yesterday the Hemingway story - ah, I will move that to the Feelings thread." I still don't know the title, either, but the point was: the boy didn't know that the nurse who had measured his temperature was using the Fahrenheit scale, nor that there were two such scales. A little over a hundred sounded somewhat alarming for him - understandably, he was used to the Celsius scale and knew that a little over forty was assumed to be lethal.
My dearest publisher* Alistair Cooke has a Hemingway-readalike in his most recent issue. He doesn't say when it was written, but I assume it must be 1982 or something. Do you agree?
news.bbc.co.uk

* there is a little bit, but not a lot, of irony in that one. Anyway, today it is the 99th birthday of Queen Mum <g>

I saw only now that Hamburgers were part of the following posts. What coincidence !

Regards, MNI.
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