Daily Archives: Wednesday: June 7, 2006

World’s Oldest Country Music Fan?

Posted on Wednesday: June 7, 2006 by Michael Hendry

That would be 110-year-old Jutland veteran, Henry Allingham, “who once attributed his old age to ‘cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women’” (þ Harry’s Place). None of the first dozen or so commenters noticed that that was a direct quotation from … Continue reading →

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An Unnecessary Gloss?

Posted on Wednesday: June 7, 2006 by Michael Hendry

In Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), the subtitles quote the maid as telling the title character, Priape Boudu, “You behave like a Neanderthal”, but the last word is clearly audible as ‘troglodyte’. Was the gloss really necessary? Surely anyone likely … Continue reading →

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