A Burning Question
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A Burning Question
To an arsonist, would burning things up and burning things down be sinonymous (sic)?
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Burning Up and Down
I'm not sure but it would burn me up if he burned my house down.
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Re: Burning Up and Down
Oh my Doctor! You have been hanging around us too long.I'm not sure but it would burn me up if he burned my house down.
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Re: Burning Up and Down
You haven't been paying attention to some of the names up with which he comes!Oh my Doctor! You have been hanging around us too long.I'm not sure but it would burn me up if he burned my house down.
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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Re: Burning Up and Down
Like, perhaps, from "consensus" on 8/5/06?You haven't been paying attention to some of the names up with which he comes!
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Speaking of arsonists:
In the John Ford movie Rio Grande starring John Wayne as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, Maureen O'Hara as Mrs. Kathleen Yorke, and Victor McLaughlin as Sgt. Major Timothy Quincannon, every time Mrs. Yorke looks at the Sgt. Major she calls him an "ARSonist," with heavy emphasis on the first syllable, and the Sgt. Major cringes, looks away, and seems genuinely disturbed and embarrassed by the accusation.
In the back story we learn that during the American Civil War, Lt. Col. Yorke and his troops, including the Sgt. Major, had burned Lt. Col. Kirby's plantation in Virginia, which Mrs. Kirby had inherited from her family. The "ARSonist" harrangue occurs several times during the film.
Finally, late in the movie, The Sgt. Major asks the Regimental Surgeon, Dr. Williams (Chill Wills) what exactly is an arsonist. The Doctor replies that an arsonist is a person who gets enjoyment from starting fires and watching things burn. "Oh!" says the Sgt. Major with great relief, "Is THAT all it means?"
One can only guess what that manly post-Bellum soldier thought it meant!
In the John Ford movie Rio Grande starring John Wayne as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, Maureen O'Hara as Mrs. Kathleen Yorke, and Victor McLaughlin as Sgt. Major Timothy Quincannon, every time Mrs. Yorke looks at the Sgt. Major she calls him an "ARSonist," with heavy emphasis on the first syllable, and the Sgt. Major cringes, looks away, and seems genuinely disturbed and embarrassed by the accusation.
In the back story we learn that during the American Civil War, Lt. Col. Yorke and his troops, including the Sgt. Major, had burned Lt. Col. Kirby's plantation in Virginia, which Mrs. Kirby had inherited from her family. The "ARSonist" harrangue occurs several times during the film.
Finally, late in the movie, The Sgt. Major asks the Regimental Surgeon, Dr. Williams (Chill Wills) what exactly is an arsonist. The Doctor replies that an arsonist is a person who gets enjoyment from starting fires and watching things burn. "Oh!" says the Sgt. Major with great relief, "Is THAT all it means?"
One can only guess what that manly post-Bellum soldier thought it meant!
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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