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?

 

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  1. Arahant Member
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    Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion (View Comment):

    Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion (View Comment):
    All things wise and wonderful
    All creatures great and small
    All things bright and beautiful
    The Lord God made them all

    Now that I’m thinking about it I think I might have reversed lines one and three. Actually I’m cetain of it, but the only reference I can find off hand is a pinterest needlework version of that bit of poetry.

    Yes, really.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Things_Bright_and_Beautiful

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  2. RightAngles Member
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    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    Hartmann von Aue (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    OldDanRhody (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    Uh, oh. Must confess the only Heinlein I’ve read is The Door Into Summer, which I hated.

    Yeah, I thought that one was a little on the creepy side, myself.

    I think Heinlein sort of slid into creepihood starting with Stranger, though I see that Door into Summer was published four years before Stranger.

    If you want the best Heinlein, stick with the juveniles. (No pun intended.)

     

    Nah. Read also the early future history material, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers and the first half of Stranger in a Strange Land. Then stop. Read absolutely nothing he wrote after Stranger. Especially avoid anything in the Lazarus Long material from later. Your opinion of him will remain high.

    I agree. But I was going for the funny.

    stick with the juveniles.

    You realize I took a screen shot of that sentence to hold over your head should the need arise.

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  3. Judge Mental Member
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    RightAngles (View Comment):

    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    Hartmann von Aue (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    OldDanRhody (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    Uh, oh. Must confess the only Heinlein I’ve read is The Door Into Summer, which I hated.

    Yeah, I thought that one was a little on the creepy side, myself.

    I think Heinlein sort of slid into creepihood starting with Stranger, though I see that Door into Summer was published four years before Stranger.

    If you want the best Heinlein, stick with the juveniles. (No pun intended.)

     

    Nah. Read also the early future history material, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers and the first half of Stranger in a Strange Land. Then stop. Read absolutely nothing he wrote after Stranger. Especially avoid anything in the Lazarus Long material from later. Your opinion of him will remain high.

    I agree. But I was going for the funny.

    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.

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  4. Arahant Member
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    Monty Python GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

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  5. Arahant Member
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    Black And White Death GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

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  6. Arahant Member
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    Celebrate Grim Reaper GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

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  7. Amy Schley Coolidge
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Black And White Death GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

    That’s not how you use that …

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  8. Arahant Member
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    Grim Reaper GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

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  9. Scott R Member
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    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.

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  10. Lois Lane Coolidge
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    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.  

     

     

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  11. EJHill Podcaster
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    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

     

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  12. Seawriter Contributor
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    EJHill (View Comment):
    Dickens only wrote one decent book

    Which one?

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  13. EJHill Podcaster
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    Seawriter:

    EJHill: Dickens only wrote one decent book

    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.

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  14. Arahant Member
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    EJHill (View Comment):
    *When the Yankees play the Red Sox the proper rooting interest is Team Asteroid

    My very favorite team.

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  15. Seawriter Contributor
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    EJHill (View Comment):

    Seawriter:

    EJHill: Dickens only wrote one decent book

    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.

    What about A Stale of Two Twitties?

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  16. Boss Mongo Member
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    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a terrible movie, totally awesome TV series.

     

    Oh, come on!

     

    Point.

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  17. Matt Balzer, Straw Bootlegger Member
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Lois Lane (View Comment):

    Spin (View Comment):

    Lois, these people have something wrong with them!!!

    Finally! A regular, reasonable person!!!!! :D

    He is not. He’s a tanker. And you’re both abusing exclamation points. A sure sign of dementia or tankerhood.

    At least he’s not a tankie.

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  18. Randy Webster Inactive
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Monty Python GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

    LOOKS LIKE DEATH FROM THE DISCWORLD SERIES.

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  19. kylez Member
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    How about early writer of Arthurian tales, Chretien de Troyes?

    Is that Kre-tee-in day Troyay? 

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  20. Arahant Member
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    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Monty Python GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

    LOOKS LIKE DEATH FROM THE DISCWORLD SERIES.

    It says Monty Python.

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  21. Arahant Member
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    kylez (View Comment):

    How about early writer of Arthurian tales, Chretien de Troyes?

    Is that Kre-tee-in day Troyay?

    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.

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  22. Matt Bartle Member
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    “It’s a Mr. Death or something about the reaping? I don’t think we need any.”

     

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  23. The Scarecrow Thatcher
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Monty Python GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

    LOOKS LIKE DEATH FROM THE DISCWORLD SERIES.

    It says Monty Python.

    I thought it looked like the death from that scene in The Meaning of Life.  ” . . . . the salmon mousse!”

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  24. Matt Balzer, Straw Bootlegger Member
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    Saint Augustine (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Saint Augustine (View Comment):
    I can top that: I don’t even know what they are.

    That Greek is saving you, man. It’s the only thing keeping you from exile to the island of Facebook right now. 😜

    No. Jesus saves.

    And takes half damage.

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  25. The Scarecrow Thatcher
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    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion (View Comment):

    Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion (View Comment):
    All things wise and wonderful
    All creatures great and small
    All things bright and beautiful
    The Lord God made them all

    Now that I’m thinking about it I think I might have reversed lines one and three. Actually I’m cetain of it, but the only reference I can find off hand is a pinterest needlework version of that bit of poetry.

    Yes, really.

    Check Church of England hymnals.

    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.

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  26. Matt Balzer, Straw Bootlegger Member
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    Manny (View Comment):
    Which one is number six?

    I am not a number, I am a free man!

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  27. Suspira Member
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    Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion (View Comment):

    Lois Lane (View Comment):

    Jim Chase (View Comment):

    Lois Lane (View Comment):

    Jim Chase (View Comment):

    He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.

    But the above is my favorite.

    It’s a beautiful Bible verse, and… since we talked about books on this thread… I loved James Herriot’s use of it to title his series about a country vet in England.

    Actually, it’s Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner. But a great quote nonetheless. I read Herriot’s first book of the series, but no further. My folks used to watch the TV series on PBS, I think, but I had no interest in the show.

    Ah! I’m not crazy though. There’s a similar passage in the Bible! I had a beer in the building where Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written. (Or was it BY the building?) Don’t’ remember. There’s one of those blue plaques you see everywhere in England on the outside, and you can visit. We just happened to be in that village and saw it. My husband and I were like… “Cool.” Though I’ve demonstrated we clearly aren’t Coleridge scholars. :D

    While we’re being jerks about it, Herriot used a similar verse (in the poetic sense, still not in the biblical sense.)

    “All things wise and wonderful
    All creatures great and small
    All things bright and beautiful
    The Lord God made them all

    Herriot’s version is from a hymn well-known to Anglicans.

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  28. Matt Bartle Member
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    Confession: I can quote a little bit of Shakespeare but a lot of Monty Python.

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  29. Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion Contributor
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    Seawriter (View Comment):

    EJHill (View Comment):

    Seawriter:

    EJHill: Dickens only wrote one decent book

    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.

    What about A Stale of Two Twitties?

    The book was superceded by it’s sequels; Two Tales, Two Cities, and A Tale of Three Cities: Tokyo Drift.

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  30. Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion Contributor
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    Matt Bartle (View Comment):

    Confession: I can quote a little bit of Shakespeare but a lot of Monty Python.

    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.

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