DQ is big in Chicago?

call me a yankee relic, but librarians didn't take shit back in the early 70's

I still shush people at work…..(almost whispering sssssusssh) you should see the youngster's faces! sorry Amanda, but you were both loud and profane…one or the other could work….but both? please sssussh :-)

enthusiasm is undefeated

'blood on his hands' is in there somewhere I yhink

not that there's anything wrong with that.

nothing about Twain is sad. dying broke is my dream….and sadly…my current reality :-)

what did he say? or she?

I have never heard my claim made by anyone but me….i think Grant was a great man with a great wealth of stories, so I would be happy to be wrong.

hated it….watched it again….hated it

and the lighting rod salesman.

um…Jimmy Stewart was strong in 'The Philadelphia Story'?

Lincoln destroys Polk with his speech before Congress: the Spot Resolutions

Mark Twain's fingers are all over Grant's auto-biography. It has been called the greatest book by a general since Julius Ceasar's….and i agree, but I also maintain that is because Twain edited it, published it and probably wrote a lot of it.

'Young Mr. Lincoln' (obvious answer) directed by John Ford starring Henry Fonda….Netflix streaming.

or if you can't be bothered to pick up a book: just watch this (some reading required) only 2 minutes long
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Are we really such an illiterate nation that a movie needs to 'bring humanity' to the greatest political writer ever? read his 2nd inaugural address, read his Cooper Union speech, re-read the Gettysburg address, the Douglas debates, his letters, his telegrams….humanity (greatness) is in almost every paragraph. duh.

Lew Wallace was a Union general in the Civil War.

I was reading P.G. Wodehouse's satire on Hollywood 'The Old Reliable' last week. In it he refers to an epic: 'Hail, Ceasar'. no exclamation point.

what did the Romans ever do for us?
the aqueduct?