I almost jumped out of my seat ( where I have been magnetically attached watching this trial) when I heard KN say "conversate". :floorlaugh:
conversate - via the urban dictionary :
A word used by backwards, ignorant, illiterate inner city trash who mean to say 'converse'.
I actually knew this...because I work in an " inner city" college and I hear my students say this often. ( I love my students )When I first heard it, I found it jarring and went to the dictionary myself to make sure.
Converse...... now i am ready for them when I hear it.
They are shocked they really think it is a word.
Now I am blown away by JM's downright poetic references . I love love that he used two iconic poems at incredible moments. He is a great mind. But the first- How do I love thee- let me count the ways ( not lies )( love you to death literally) I am not sure about this I have to look more..I do not think EBB wrote this as a tongue and cheek poem to her hubby Robert Browning ( also a poet) I may be wrong.
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
The John Donne poem
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every
man is a piece of the continent, a part of the
main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory
were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or
of thine own were: any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind, and
therefore never send to know for whom the bells
tolls; it tolls for thee."
John Donne
Devotions upon
Emergent Occasions, no. 17
(Meditation)
1624 (published)
excuse me F*#% nurmi for blowing the moment
[video=youtube;tS4S5WMh6pk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS4S5WMh6pk&list=PL79B160677BD77533[/video]
the bell tolls for Travis Victor Alexander
May the Jurors and Judge be blessed with discernment.
"we need one another....each man as my brother each man as my friend"