Comments on: Holy Lives, Happy Deaths http://hootingyard.org/archives/1868 A Website by Frank Key Tue, 22 May 2012 19:53:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Frank Key http://hootingyard.org/archives/1868/comment-page-1#comment-5813 Frank Key Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:03:06 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1868#comment-5813 Anon : These are cogent questions. A new gang of interns* will be joining the ever-growing global empire that is Hooting Yard shortly, and I will put one (or possibly two) of them to work researching the significant issues you have raised. * In Hooting Yard parlance, an "intern" is an indoor tern, that is, a domesticated seabird. Interns can be surprisingly adept at research tasks, unlike inguillemots and inauks. Anon : These are cogent questions. A new gang of interns* will be joining the ever-growing global empire that is Hooting Yard shortly, and I will put one (or possibly two) of them to work researching the significant issues you have raised.

* In Hooting Yard parlance, an “intern” is an indoor tern, that is, a domesticated seabird. Interns can be surprisingly adept at research tasks, unlike inguillemots and inauks.

]]> By: Anonymous http://hootingyard.org/archives/1868/comment-page-1#comment-5812 Anonymous Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:25:11 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1868#comment-5812 If time moved backwards, would Hannah More's dates have been 1833-1745? Or maybe we should still have counted from zero. But in what sense, then, would time be flowing backwards? [Isn't there a popular cinematographic presentation about this at the moment? (I keep misreading it as 'The Strange Case of Benjamin Britten' as I hurry past the cinema.)] >could have been the offspring of Dobson and Prudence Foxglove Surely this would would have required a considerable increase in human longevity? Or have Dobson and Foxglove bequeathed cryogenically-preserved genetic bits'n'pieces to posterity (or to the past, according to the present trope)? If so, let Dobson's spawn become incarnate, without delay. I'm sure Mary Warnock, Richard Attenborough, et al, would lend their imprimatur and practical skills. Just thinking aloud, really. If time moved backwards, would Hannah More’s dates have been 1833-1745? Or maybe we should still have counted from zero. But in what sense, then, would time be flowing backwards? [Isn't there a popular cinematographic presentation about this at the moment? (I keep misreading it as 'The Strange Case of Benjamin Britten' as I hurry past the cinema.)]

>could have been the offspring of Dobson and Prudence Foxglove

Surely this would would have required a considerable increase in human longevity?

Or have Dobson and Foxglove bequeathed cryogenically-preserved genetic bits’n'pieces to posterity (or to the past, according to the present trope)?

If so, let Dobson’s spawn become incarnate, without delay. I’m sure Mary Warnock, Richard Attenborough, et al, would lend their imprimatur and practical skills.

Just thinking aloud, really.

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