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To: lqclamar
By smelling it.

And how often do you smell the Niger in order to arrive at this conclusion?

Indeed. Let's make it 6 with Yamousoukro.

Dragging your feet still, aren't you?

That's not what your quote said: "Then please explain why Robert Johnson, a man who claimed to have sold his soul to the Devil, is the "King of the Delta Blues."

And when you extract the subordinate clause, you get "Then please explain why Robert Johnson is the "King of the Delta Blues."" I'm not ruling out a Westminster coronation. Or even a Tupelo coronation, if such existed.

Nonetheless, you've yet to produce any information that the story is anything other than an apocryphal misattribution based on a similar name.

A widely-known apocryphal tale about a man who sang about crossroads and hell hounds.

There's no record of Robert Johnson ever making that claim though.

A lot of Robert Johnson's life is poorly documented. For example, when was he born?

Unless you can name a purely libertarian government in existence today, I'll venture to say that it is not.

I don't need to name a purely libertarian government. I only need to name a state that is neither a colony nor a dictatorship.

494 posted on 02/03/2007 9:51:16 PM PST by zimdog
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To: zimdog
And how often do you smell the Niger in order to arrive at this conclusion?

Given that "public bathroom smell" is pretty noxious and unforgettable, I suppose once is plenty to remember.

Dragging your feet still, aren't you?

Nah. Just taunting you for fun. Al-Fashir makes 7.

And when you extract the subordinate clause

Except that the subordinate clause was placed in there intentionally. Extracting it alters what you intended to emphasize.

A lot of Robert Johnson's life is poorly documented.

Certainly. But that's still no basis to assume that he talked about selling his soul to the devil simply because he has a similar name to another guitar player who told that story.

I don't need to name a purely libertarian government. I only need to name a state that is neither a colony nor a dictatorship.

And why would that state fall somewhere on the same scale of liberty that colonies and dictatorships do?

498 posted on 02/03/2007 10:00:26 PM PST by lqclamar
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