"H the K" wrote in message
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On 10/8/09 6:43 PM, Tim wrote:
On Oct 8, 4:56 pm, John H wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 05:24:40 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:





Well maybe not. But seeing the creation, religion,evolution thread is
getting so long, I thought I'd ask a hypothetical question. Well maybe
it's not as hypothetical , but here goes.

If an English lit teacher was passing out assignments assignments for
students to give a book report. Various books are chosen, some long ,
some short.

OK, the list has several *options* None are specifically required.
Here's a sample list:

"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"All Quiet one the Western Front"
"Gulliver's Travels"
"Moby Dick"
"The book of Matthew"
"Oliver Twist"
"The Trial"

etc, etc.

Notice included is the Gospel account of Matthew. Would this be
considered as promoting religion?

AND! Even if it was required reading. could it be used for literary
purposes only?

Just curious.

If the purpose of the assignment was to promote religion, then it
would be promoting religion. If the purpose was to have the students
read decent writing and practice writing, then it would not be
promoting religion.

Of course, the ACLU and other atheists would probably disagree with
that. But then again, they would probably applaud the idea of
assigning a book report on Mao Zedong's Little Red Book.- Hide quoted
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Yes, like I said, I would have probably done a report on Hitlers Mein
Kampf if it was on the list, the "little red book?" That would have
been interesting too.

But today anything biblical or any book that might have a reference to
biblical scriptures probably wouldn't be available.

Some where down the line they've probably been replaced with the works
of Kate Chopin.


You know, I can't recall one class in public school where there was a
reading list of books from which reports had to be made. I recall lots of
reports in my classes based upon Dickens' novels and Austen's novels in
the 7th grade. Fine reads, but after that the reports came mostly on more
esoteric books, some good, some not so good. My 8th grade reports were on
several of Dreiser's novels. In the 10th grade, after two years of high
school Russian, I *dared* to read Dr. Zhivago in Russian, and then deliver
an oral book report on it in Russian in my Russian class. But I was
outdone by a gal who did the same with War and Peace.


We were mostly assigned books as I recall... don't remember what they were.

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Nom=de=Plume

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"H the K" wrote in message
m...
On 10/8/09 6:43 PM, Tim wrote:
On Oct 8, 4:56 pm, John H wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 05:24:40 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:





Well maybe not. But seeing the creation, religion,evolution thread is
getting so long, I thought I'd ask a hypothetical question. Well maybe
it's not as hypothetical , but here goes.

If an English lit teacher was passing out assignments assignments for
students to give a book report. Various books are chosen, some long ,
some short.

OK, the list has several *options* None are specifically required.
Here's a sample list:

"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"All Quiet one the Western Front"
"Gulliver's Travels"
"Moby Dick"
"The book of Matthew"
"Oliver Twist"
"The Trial"

etc, etc.

Notice included is the Gospel account of Matthew. Would this be
considered as promoting religion?

AND! Even if it was required reading. could it be used for literary
purposes only?

Just curious.

If the purpose of the assignment was to promote religion, then it
would be promoting religion. If the purpose was to have the students
read decent writing and practice writing, then it would not be
promoting religion.

Of course, the ACLU and other atheists would probably disagree with
that. But then again, they would probably applaud the idea of
assigning a book report on Mao Zedong's Little Red Book.- Hide quoted
text -

- Show quoted text -

Yes, like I said, I would have probably done a report on Hitlers Mein
Kampf if it was on the list, the "little red book?" That would have
been interesting too.

But today anything biblical or any book that might have a reference to
biblical scriptures probably wouldn't be available.

Some where down the line they've probably been replaced with the works
of Kate Chopin.


You know, I can't recall one class in public school where there was a
reading list of books from which reports had to be made. I recall lots of
reports in my classes based upon Dickens' novels and Austen's novels in
the 7th grade. Fine reads, but after that the reports came mostly on more
esoteric books, some good, some not so good. My 8th grade reports were on
several of Dreiser's novels. In the 10th grade, after two years of high
school Russian, I *dared* to read Dr. Zhivago in Russian, and then deliver
an oral book report on it in Russian in my Russian class. But I was
outdone by a gal who did the same with War and Peace.


We were mostly assigned books as I recall... don't remember what they were.

Funny, as soon as I started to read the above paragraph I knew it was
our WAFA spinning his tales again... Doesn't he know that nobody but
Donnie believes him when he gets going?? WAFA

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:20:49 -0400, Tosk
wrote:

Funny, as soon as I started to read the above paragraph I knew it was
our WAFA spinning his tales again...

Add speaks Russian - probably in French - to the list of
accomplishments.

He is truly the most interesting man in the world.

And about as real.

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:26:03 -0400, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:20:49 -0400, Tosk
wrote:

Funny, as soon as I started to read the above paragraph I knew it was
our WAFA spinning his tales again...

Add speaks Russian - probably in French - to the list of
accomplishments.

He is truly the most interesting man in the world.

Heh heh. Timely. Daughters boyfriend, an international gadabout, left
a couple Coronas in the fridge while I was on vacation.
I passed, and grabbed a bottle of Harnas, "Of Polish Highlanders.".
Don't know how interesting I am, but drinking Polish hillbilly beer
should help that, along with my BAC.

--Vic

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:54 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:26:03 -0400, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:20:49 -0400, Tosk
wrote:

Funny, as soon as I started to read the above paragraph I knew it was
our WAFA spinning his tales again...

Add speaks Russian - probably in French - to the list of
accomplishments.

He is truly the most interesting man in the world.

Heh heh. Timely. Daughters boyfriend, an international gadabout, left
a couple Coronas in the fridge while I was on vacation.
I passed, and grabbed a bottle of Harnas, "Of Polish Highlanders.".
Don't know how interesting I am, but drinking Polish hillbilly beer
should help that, along with my BAC.

True story. We had a get together here a couple of years ago - Mrs.
Wave collegues, some of mine and a few oher friends and neighbors. So
I went out to buy beer.

Now you have to understand that when I quit, over 30 years ago, there
wasn't much choice for beer - in fact, the height of American beer
snobbery was Coors - which you couldn't get on the East Coast at the
time.

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. :)

On Oct 8, 10:28*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:54 -0600, Vic Smith





wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:26:03 -0400, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:20:49 -0400, Tosk
wrote:

Funny, as soon as I started to read the above paragraph I knew it was
our WAFA spinning his tales again...

Add speaks Russian - probably in French - to the list of
accomplishments.

He is truly the most interesting man in the world.

Heh heh. Timely. *Daughters boyfriend, an international gadabout, left
a couple Coronas in the fridge while I was on vacation.
I passed, and grabbed a bottle of Harnas, "Of Polish Highlanders.".
Don't know how interesting I am, but drinking Polish hillbilly beer
should help that, along with my BAC.

True story. *We had a get together here a couple of years ago - Mrs.
Wave collegues, some of mine and a few oher friends and neighbors. So
I went out to buy beer.

Now you have to understand that when I quit, over 30 years ago, there
wasn't much choice for beer - in fact, the height of American beer
snobbery was Coors - which you couldn't get on the East Coast at the
time.

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. *:)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nest time go straight Old Milwaukee. or Strohs.

There won't be any beer left!

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:56:48 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Oct 8, 10:28?pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:54 -0600, Vic Smith





wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:26:03 -0400, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:20:49 -0400, Tosk
wrote:

Funny, as soon as I started to read the above paragraph I knew it was
our WAFA spinning his tales again...

Add speaks Russian - probably in French - to the list of
accomplishments.

He is truly the most interesting man in the world.

Heh heh. Timely. ?Daughters boyfriend, an international gadabout, left
a couple Coronas in the fridge while I was on vacation.
I passed, and grabbed a bottle of Harnas, "Of Polish Highlanders.".
Don't know how interesting I am, but drinking Polish hillbilly beer
should help that, along with my BAC.

True story. ?We had a get together here a couple of years ago - Mrs.
Wave collegues, some of mine and a few oher friends and neighbors. So
I went out to buy beer.

Now you have to understand that when I quit, over 30 years ago, there
wasn't much choice for beer - in fact, the height of American beer
snobbery was Coors - which you couldn't get on the East Coast at the
time.

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. ?:)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nest time go straight Old Milwaukee. or Strohs.

There won't be any beer left!

No accounting for tastes, but those have done good by me.
Never liked Bud or Sam Adams, but many do.
On that Coors Tom mentioned, he's exactly right.
Went I left Oregon in '72 to come home I picked up a couple cases of
Coors for my BIL, who had mentioned wanting to try it.
Couldn't get it in Chicago. Never wanted any more after tasting my
first can - not that I wasted the six-pack - and never hesitated about
leaving those cases on his doorstep.
Another case of the "grass is greener" I suspect.
Only beer I turn my nose up at and absolutely won't drink is those
Lite abominations. Sacrilege.
Just something wrong about that. It's sick.
All that diet stuff is crap. Better to just rein back those carts of
food going in your mouth than to eat bad stuff.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....BUTTER.

--Vic

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:56:48 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Oct 8, 10:28*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:54 -0600, Vic Smith





wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:26:03 -0400, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:20:49 -0400, Tosk
wrote:

Funny, as soon as I started to read the above paragraph I knew it was
our WAFA spinning his tales again...

Add speaks Russian - probably in French - to the list of
accomplishments.

He is truly the most interesting man in the world.

Heh heh. Timely. *Daughters boyfriend, an international gadabout, left
a couple Coronas in the fridge while I was on vacation.
I passed, and grabbed a bottle of Harnas, "Of Polish Highlanders.".
Don't know how interesting I am, but drinking Polish hillbilly beer
should help that, along with my BAC.

True story. *We had a get together here a couple of years ago - Mrs.
Wave collegues, some of mine and a few oher friends and neighbors. So
I went out to buy beer.

Now you have to understand that when I quit, over 30 years ago, there
wasn't much choice for beer - in fact, the height of American beer
snobbery was Coors - which you couldn't get on the East Coast at the
time.

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. *:)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nest time go straight Old Milwaukee. or Strohs.

There won't be any beer left!

Oh beers - just got me to thinking.

Ballantine XXX (rat pee), Narragansett, Carling's (Mabel - Black
Label), Schaefer (the one beer to have when you're having more than
one - always thought that was a bit odd for a slogan), JAX, Falstaff
and of course the worst beer in the world that's actually good after a
while - Dixie. :)

Oh - thought of another one - Hamm's - The beer - refreshing.

I need to do some research on that - there's got to be a website with
old regional beers I don't remember.

"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:54 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:26:03 -0400, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:20:49 -0400, Tosk
wrote:

Funny, as soon as I started to read the above paragraph I knew it was
our WAFA spinning his tales again...

Add speaks Russian - probably in French - to the list of
accomplishments.

He is truly the most interesting man in the world.

Heh heh. Timely. Daughters boyfriend, an international gadabout, left
a couple Coronas in the fridge while I was on vacation.
I passed, and grabbed a bottle of Harnas, "Of Polish Highlanders.".
Don't know how interesting I am, but drinking Polish hillbilly beer
should help that, along with my BAC.

True story. We had a get together here a couple of years ago - Mrs.
Wave collegues, some of mine and a few oher friends and neighbors. So
I went out to buy beer.

Now you have to understand that when I quit, over 30 years ago, there
wasn't much choice for beer - in fact, the height of American beer
snobbery was Coors - which you couldn't get on the East Coast at the
time.

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. :)


I hate to admit it, but I really like Coors Light, but only when it's really
hot outside.

--
Nom=de=Plume

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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:28:52 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. :)


I am drinking PBR these days. I have trouble finding regular Coors in
a bottle, my other choice.
I used to always drink Bud but I just lost the taste for it and I
don't like the heavy beers.
I drink Busch if I can't find PBR or Coors.

Coors was always available where I lived and could never understand the
draw. But I never drank much beer, as most of the American ones gave me a
headache. In Sydney, AU in business, an old guy pointed at my beer, Tooth's
Old, an amber beer and said that is good, Tooth's New would give you a
headache. Tooths new looked like Coors, or most other American Beers.