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True Confessions of a Ricochetti
On another thread, one of our members admitted something:
I always confuse Horace Greeley with William Jennings Bryan.
I’ve seen a few other comments like this over the years I have been here. When Ricochetti go wild and make their true confessions, it usually isn’t the sort of thing you would see on Facebook or Jeff Bezos’ diary. How many people on your Facebook feed even know who Horace Greeley and William Jennings Bryant are? This is a high-class joint with high-class true confessions.
My true confession: the older I get, the more trouble I have with homonyms. I tend to write out loud. I once found an error in one of my books where I had used the word “clamber” instead of “clamor,” for instance.
What’s your most Ricochet-style true confession?
Published in Humor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Things_Bright_and_Beautiful
stick with the juveniles.
You realize I took a screen shot of that sentence to hold over your head should the need arise.
And I’m going to save the Grim Reaper gif so I can go ahead and post it myself.
That’s not how you use that …
I can’t keep straight the Kaplan’s and Kagan’s in the foreign policy commentariat. Fathers, sons, husbands, wives, a couple Roberts…
I’ve never had it straight and never will.
Wow. I went away and… you know… did life. I came back and this post is still going strong! Good job, @arahant! You started a really lively conversation!
Also, I am really glad to know why I thought the verses from Herriot were Biblical. I did live in England. There was the church connection. It makes so much sense.
Unpopular confessions/opinions?
*The Beatles suck
*Dickens only wrote one decent book
*When the Yankees play the Red Sox the proper rooting interest is Team Asteroid
Which one?
Honestly, after A Christmas Carol (which I guess constitutes a novella) every thing else sucks, including Mediocre Expectations, The Nitwit Papers, Oliver Twisted and George H.W. Bush’s favorite, David Coppafeel.
My very favorite team.
What about A Stale of Two Twitties?
Point.
At least he’s not a tankie.
LOOKS LIKE DEATH FROM THE DISCWORLD SERIES.
How about early writer of Arthurian tales, Chretien de Troyes?
Is that Kre-tee-in day Troyay?
It says Monty Python.
Kray-tea-i(n) duh T(r)wa
Last syllable of first name through the nose. Troyes has that back-of-the-throat French R.
“It’s a Mr. Death or something about the reaping? I don’t think we need any.”
I thought it looked like the death from that scene in The Meaning of Life. ” . . . . the salmon mousse!”
And takes half damage.
If you’re a believer, then don’t forget Monty Python’s reminder of the rest:
All things dull and ugly,
All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.
Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom.
He made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid–
Who made the spikey urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!
All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.
Amen.
Granted “All Things Sick and Cancerous” wouldn’t have been that great a title for a TV show though.
I am not a number, I am a free man!
Herriot’s version is from a hymn well-known to Anglicans.
Confession: I can quote a little bit of Shakespeare but a lot of Monty Python.
The book was superceded by it’s sequels; Two Tales, Two Cities, and A Tale of Three Cities: Tokyo Drift.
I can quote quite a bit more Shakespeare than I have any right to. Not all that well, but when you recall that the line isn’t actually “Something’s rotten in Denmark” I don’t know that that’s an impediment.