Good Morning!

[Killerbunny]

I thought Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass actually were written when the Author waas in a drug induced haze, acceptable then amongst the Intelligentsia.

[Ontario Chick]

I thought Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass actually were written when the Author waas in a drug induced haze, acceptable then amongst the Intelligentsia.

Good morning,
reorganizing book shelves couple of days ago in search of something to read came across a "Children's classics" 10 books I must have bought about 40 years ago and pretty sure none of my children read them, so before donating them, I figured I better read them to get my $1.99 worth out of them, right?
So started out with "Robinson Crusoe", everybody knows the story, or at least I though I did ??
Well apparently I didn't, coz I didn't know for example that He was a slave for two years, after his escape he purchased a plantation in Brazil and since he and his fellow ranchers were short of labour growing tobacco, they got together and sent a ship to Guinea to purchase slaves, that was the ship that sunk and brought him to his island adventures. So glad none of my children read that book and now somewhat afraid to start on Little Women, in case it turns out to be about a house of ill repute, or black Beauty about horse meat market, to Alice in wonderland about drug induced adventure of a rock star.

Now you are just taking away my childhood naivety, I was trying to hang on to into my dotage

[Farrier1987]

I thought Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass actually were written when the Author waas in a drug induced haze, acceptable then amongst the Intelligentsia.

My understanding is that Lewis Carol was probably gay, and there were three little girls he doted on, children of friends. He wrote Alice and Through the Looking Glass for them. Queen Vickie was so enthralled by his writing, that she asked for a copy of his next book. He was also a math professor, and wrote a book on Theorems of Higher Algebraic Notatioal Gobbledygook or somesuch. And being a loyal subject and true to his word, he duly sent her an autographed first run copy.

As for Black Beauty and Bambi and such, they are wonderful fairy tales, just wonderful. The fault is not with the story itself, but with some misguided sorts that think they hold a textbook in their hands. In fact, the last time I did a horse for an unhappy customer, I did mention to them that Black Beauty is not a horsemanship textbook. They were crestfallen. Then I started in on Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. It was a disheartening day for them.

[Killerbunny]

I was traumatised by Old Yeller. On the subject of Fairy Tales I don't recommend anyone of delicate disposition read the Goose Girl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_Girl

[WLLady]

more fuzzybutts
these are black sexlinked (black with head dots) and mostly welbars and silver welbars. there are a couple rhodebars-if you find 2 with purple marker on their heads.....a few light brown leghorns (chipmunks with a small amount of white in the dorsal stripes) and a couple of welsummers. .

[Jaye]

I was traumatised by Old Yeller.

me too.

[Happy]

I was traumatised by Old Yeller.

me too.

Me three
It was my first drive in movie with my much older cousin.
It ruined the drive-in for me forever

[KimChick]

Well, I had to Google Lewis Carroll in relation to Algebra (which is very useful Math, by the way) and found: https://www.maa.org/external_archive/de ... 03_10.html in which it states:
"Lewis Carroll was the pen name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician at Christ Church College, Oxford, and most mathematicians are probably aware that elements of the Alice story were inspired by mathematics. (At least, that is the entirely reasonable assumption everyone makes; Dodgson himself provided no commentary to that effect.)"
Weren't opiates and cocaine also popular drugs of choice in the 1800's?
Then again, maybe he was just a creative mathematician who apparently also liked Euclidean geometry (which is no longer taught very much in school, if at all).
It's a bit of a lengthy article, which I just skimmed, but read it to your Mathematical heart's content!

[kenya]

Just a question, I see on Kijiji ads saying Wanted ISO hens, what does ISO stand for?

[ross]

Kenya . In Search Of ? Da English & punctuation is first loss on the internet posts . . Me thinks .