AP Photo: Robert Leonard, a Hofstra University college professor teaching forensic linguistics, lectures to students at Hofstra...
1 posted on
05/05/2006 11:30:29 AM PDT by
weegee
To: Revolting cat!
"Who wrote a ransom note? Who called in a bomb threat? What is the meaning of a phrase in a contract? ... Who wrote the book of love?"
2 posted on
05/05/2006 11:31:08 AM PDT by
weegee
("Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays")
To: weegee
I'm not giving him a hard time, but I thought he said something amusing in describing why Woodstock was great:
There was no dissent
Woodstock Generation doesn't like dissent -- or do they?
3 posted on
05/05/2006 11:34:53 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
To: weegee
The guy made the right decision - Sha Na Na was the phoniest things in rock there ever was, before the Blues Brothers and Spinal Tap, that is. But how that stint inspired him to take up linguistics is not entirely clear.
4 posted on
05/05/2006 11:42:32 AM PDT by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: weegee
For some reason, I wore the grooves off of Sha Na Na's "From The Streets of New York" album when I was in high school.
5 posted on
05/05/2006 11:45:20 AM PDT by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: weegee
I do not understand.
To: weegee
He decode the intentions and motivations of ransom letter-writers...but can he tell us
what the hell was the meaning of what Bowzer was doing with his elbow at the end of every show? 
13 posted on
05/06/2006 2:51:22 PM PDT by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
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