Posted on 08/25/2002 10:27:09 PM PDT by pittsburgh gop guy
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
An apocryphal version of a famous Dr. Johnson remark about women preachers has come down to us as rather nuanced in its meaning. He is reported to have said that seeing women preaching is like seeing a dog walking on its front legs, not because it is well or badly done but because one is surprised to see it done at all. In this version, the remark is not intended to be boorish or unchivalrous -- but simply to illustrate something so unexpected as to be startling, perhaps so startling as to border on spectacle.
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I'm kinda partial to this pic...
Bambi!
Cynicism is a pretty good description of superficial negativity, and
As soon as her editor died of cancer, her original publisher dropped her book saying that it would never sell. She shopped her book around for 2 months while the rejection slips piled up. She deserves every penny she's making from book buyers and every one of them sends a message that says "stupid" all over it to the publishers that rejected her.
An apocryphal version of a famous Dr. Johnson remark about women preachers has come down to us as rather nuanced in its meaning. He is reported to have said that seeing women preaching is like seeing a dog walking on its front legs, not because it is well or badly done but because one is surprised to see it done at all...Well, sort of...
From a Google search of "johnson dog woman preaching legs", the general consensus seems to be that the ACTUAL quote is more like THIS:
"A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs.
It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."
Life of Johnson (J. Boswell), Vol. I, 1763(see, for instance: http://www.xrefer.com/entry/169189)
Considering that most gatekeepers to our national media, out of laziness or conviction, would prefer to filter out her kind, Miss Coulter's very survival as a public figure has been her most startling trick, indeed has offered a kind of breathtaking spectacle.Now, THAT is great writing!
For much milder remarks than she daily defiantly serves up, we've seen veteran broadcasters hounded out of their careers.
Yet there she still is enduring on the tightrope, however threadbare it may be by now, her long-limbed signature silhouette poised precariously aloft, riverine blonde locks riffled by the breeze and legs coltishly pirouetting above the shark pool...
(This absolves the author for mangling the quote from Dr. Johnson.)
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