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Originally Posted by LaRondo
I already mentioned a few times how much I appreciate you being my personal MSforum spellcheck.
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It is a thankless (and never ending) job, but someone has to help you. English is obviously still a foreign tongue to you.
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Originally Posted by LaRondo
Your lifetime is not enough to figure out yourself, Ernie.
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Ernie, Ernesto, Ernest, Ernst...it is of no consequence. To paraphrase Shakespeare (you know, another one of of those English writers that you probably have not heard of ) "...would a hammer be any less destructive (or painful) by any other name..."
Bang...bang...bang....
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Originally Posted by LaRondo
Btw, who's Tom Thumb? Never heard of him. Must be living somewhere in your neighborhood.
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I am no longer surprised by the gaps in your education.
In my never ending quest to edify and educate the less fortunate, here you have it, from the Wiki:
Tom Thumb is a traditional hero in English folklore who is no bigger than his father's thumb.
Various allusions to Tom Thumb are included in sixteenth century works; in his Discovery of Witchcraft, Reginald Scot includes Tom Thumbe in a list of folkloric creatures such as witches and satyrs that nursemaids told their charges about until the children were frightened of their own shadows.[1]
Folktales featuring Tom Thumb as the hero appear in print in the seventeenth century.[2]
Aside from the folk tale, Tom Thumb figures in Henry Fielding's The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the History of Tom Thumb the Great, which became, when printed, The Author's Farce (1731).
The name is often applied people or objects of small stature.
Had the "superior" Aryans not blundered during WWII, you might be a tad more conversant with English literature.