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Fnord666
on Wednesday January 03 2018, @06:24PM
from the a-rolling-stone-gathers-no-ellsberg dept.
from the a-rolling-stone-gathers-no-ellsberg dept.
The Rolling Stone has run a web version of its 1973 interview with Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg is the former US military analyst who blew the whistle on the Nixon administration's misdeeds regarding the Vietnam War. Specfically he photocopied an extensive, secret study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and later to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and nearly a score of other newspapers. These documents he released became known as the Pentagon Papers eventually published as excerpts and commentaries by The New York Times. Both The New York Times and The Rolling Stone have since drifted from that kind of coverage and the article provides an interesting contrast to how those publications are now.
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WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg
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It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ...
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday January 03 2018, @07:38PM (10 children)
Not just a "reprint", sir, but a "WWW reprint".
Gaston! Put Wagner on the turntable, hand me some Hennessy, the loupe and the hiPahde, I have a WWW Reprint to peruse!
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday January 03 2018, @08:57PM (8 children)
"Gaston!"
Gaston? [wikia.com] What's he to do with it?
(I suspect you meant 'garçon'' [wikipedia.org].)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:23PM (7 children)
You suspect incorrectly.
Maybe I should have used "James", "Igor", "Willikins", "Alfred" or "Godrick" for the butler, but Gaston sounded more posh that particular minute.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Arik on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:30PM (6 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by bob_super on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:54PM (5 children)
I ain't ever getting a butler anyone could mistake for a boy, or a man, even on those cursed occasions when clothing is required.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Arik on Wednesday January 03 2018, @10:09PM (4 children)
This just gets stranger and stranger.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by bob_super on Thursday January 04 2018, @12:24AM (3 children)
Wouldn't androgynous imply a risk of confusion with a boy or man?
At some point I jumped from a genericish butler male naming concept, to expressing my own requirements, yet I may ask my highly-feminine and totally imaginary potential future butler to answer to Gaston too, just to please you.
I believe we do deserve our upcoming Offtopic mods.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Arik on Thursday January 04 2018, @02:05AM (2 children)
Yes. The implication was that a female butler is inconceivable, impossible, a contradiction in terms.
but·ler
ˈbətlər/
noun
noun: butler; plural noun: butlers
the chief manservant of a house.
No woman would take such a job, and even if one did, she still wouldn't be a butler.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by dry on Thursday January 04 2018, @03:51AM (1 child)
Actually, there are quite a few female butlers. Times change and we even have female firemen.
According to Wiki, the first mention of a female butler was in a 1892 book and here's one of the first hits talking about female butlers (often called House Managers or Personal Assistants, just like a fireman are often called fireperson) http://www.thebillionairesbutler.com/2011/04/faq-are-there-female-butlers.html [thebillionairesbutler.com]
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Arik on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:12AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:26PM
It's the classical "on a computer" addage. We could patent this WWW Reprinting.