Sky, when the game breaks up, please pass this along to Mr. Detroit:

One Step, Two Step, Three Step, Four
Inquisition, Pogrom, Holy War and more

...And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
--John Donne

OMNI
This thread has humbled me, and turned into an intellectual exercise for me. In case any one else is interested, following is the American Heritage Dictionary definition of "Fellow Traveler":
Per the website - Phrase Finder:

Students of cold-war history are invited to annotate!


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RichG: Perhaps if and when Nathan makes a Lazarean return, he will be able to return to the first person. Meanwhile he must do as MacArthur always did and use the third.



And the Lion never protesteth too much (see Narnia, any volume, e.g. Witch Lion and Wardrobe, by CSLewis).



This really is better than whose seat is bigger (no pun intended). In fact, it is a good intellectual jousting and fun.

But now, methinks it may be time to say "Good night, Sweet Prince, parting is such sweet" and so forth. You are all nice folks and it's fun to joust with you from time to time in such a pleasant manner.



The bells still go ting a ling a ling but not for thee and me for we are all saints (see St. Paul for confirmation). And Thou of the Gloomy View, take heart, for you too are one of the aforementioned saints and will know it some day.

RichG: Perhaps if and when Nathan makes a Lazarean return, he will be able to return to the first person. Meanwhile he must do as MacArthur always did and use the third.



And the Lion never protesteth too much (see Narnia, any volume, e.g. Witch Lion and Wardrobe, by CSLewis).



This really is better than whose seat is bigger (no pun intended). In fact, it is a good intellectual jousting and fun.

But now, methinks it may be time to say "Good night, Sweet Prince, parting is such sweet" and so forth. You are all nice folks and it's fun to joust with you from time to time in such a pleasant manner.



The bells still go ting a ling a ling but not for thee and me for we are all saints (see St. Paul for confirmation). And Thou of the Gloomy View, take heart, for you too are one of the aforementioned saints and will know it some day.

I'm sorry....I forgot what this thread is about.

Sanity,

Perhaps you have not been paying attention, or did not get the reading list? Obviously, this thread concerns the paradigm shift from a pre-modern, ethico-religious based model of miles accumulation to the current laissez-faire, neo-Keyesian approach. Along the way, students explored how great thinkers and writers, such a Shakespeare, Donne, Marx, and Jesus interpreted frequent flyer programs in their own time and culture.
It is hoped that conclusions will be reached as to whether the dialectic pendulum swings towards United or Northwest hegemony.

As we are painfully aware, in modern times there is no longer a concern to who gets upgraded first, a Saint or Premier Executive. Thus, special emphasis has been devoted to the imperative: "Can a command economy in a totalitarian State more effectively distribute miles for the benefit of the masses?" And if so, will the masses simply go to Disney World? Parallel to that discussion: "Will the divide between business and tourist class go the way of the Berlin Wall?"

Sanity, I hope that you found this concise summation useful. If you require more, RichG can provide the formal Cliff Notes.

Oh.

Jailer,

I think maybe we should all have another martini and call you in the morning. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif Isn't that what they taught us in Hawaii?

Happy Audit!!! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

It all started with a (literally) irreverent remark that Nathan Detroit found in bad taste... wonder what he thought of "History of the World, Part I"

[changing the subject back again]

"But doth suffer a sea change, into something rich and strange. Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell; Hark, now I hear them, ding-dong bell."

RichG: What Nathan said was "not in good taste;" he did not say "bad taste." Just to keep the record clear - if that is now possible.



Ding dong - dig aling a ling is about where this has gone so how about "Good night, Sweet Prince" now?

OK, I see that they're back misusing that Shakespearian line again.

nathan detroit, peer across the table there at your game (is it being held in the heavenly version of the Mermaid, perchance?) and see if 'tis Will sitting on the other side (as he often did, I'm told).

If so, he can probably remind you that it was not Henry whom he had say that famous line "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" (although it is, of course, in Henry VI, Part II). Instead it was a low anarchist, knave and rebel, Dick the Butcher, who is clearly and avowedly out to destroy society. And how (according to the good Will) ought he best to start in achieving that goal, but to do away with that which makes a society civilized. (As the King later exclaims, "Oh graceless men! They know not what they do.")

Arguably the only good idea Dick's "leader" had was to make it a felony to drink weak beer, and to direct that all citizens would get four quarts of beer for the price of one. [However, he then says he'll do away with money, too, so we're not sure exactly how that's going to work.]

Speaking of beer . . .

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Extremely interesting assertion here by the long since departed ND (may he rest in peace)regarding his comments and the misquoting of them by others- particularly in view of the way I was personally chastised by the former ND himself, in body and soul, for presumably calling a UA employee a "liar"! Indeed I never did!

I rest my case!

That's a matter of opinion.

Ah, dear Counsellor, Nathan stands corrected.

It has been neigh on to 50 years since he refreshed himself with the good Henrys IV and VI and should have done so before leaping into the fray; with V he is more current.



As to the rested case, it stands on what is written and not in the stars. But let us not begin that trollery again. To haleck (2 ls perhaps?) or not to haleck, that is the question

Agreed. May we all go in peace!