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A little Catholic boy comes home from school and asks his Mum, "What's the missionary position?"

His Mum was taken aback and wondered how she would get out of the sex education dilemma.

"Where did you hear of that?"

"Oh, I had to take a message to Father to give to the Bishop who was visiting. The Bishop was talking to Sister Mary and I heard him say, "We'll have to discuss the missionary position after dinner tonight"

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3 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Albert Einstein was a real genius. But his brother Frank was a monster

That's right! Motion pictures' Dr Frankenstein did create a terrifying monster, but in the original novel by Mary Shelley the creature is sentient and a rather sad individual. Speaking to Frankenstein, the monster says "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel". That angel would be Lucifer (meaning "light-bringer") in Milton's Paradise Lost, which the creature has read.

 

So Frank Einstein is the real monster of the piece.

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Not funny, but ...

 

For a number of reasons, my daughter will have to have her twins delivered by caesarian section about two weeks short of the normal gestation period. The date for the procedure/birthing has been set for the twenty-third of November.

 

Written in abbreviated numerical form, their birth date will be 23/11/23.

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Just realised of all the books I have read, I have never picked up  Frankenstein, if I can find a copy I might just have a read of it. When I was 11, I got a copy of a tale of two city's for my birthday, back then I found it heavy going. I have been thinking of digging it up out of my library and having a crack at it again now I might understand it better.

 

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When it comes to classic books, we have been much mislead by Disney, etc.

 

I think you should be able to get a free electronic text copy of the original book. Go onto 'The Gutenberg Project'. They have lots of old books that have expired copyright.

 

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Frankenstein&submit_search=Search

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The only problem with reading those 19th Century novels is getting used to the formality of the style of writing. We are used to a different style. You have to be careful of the changes in meaning of some words, and the extinction of some words and occupations. 

 

Regarding word extinction, Shakespeare is said to have introduced many words to the English language, be he also introduced a lot of words that never made it past the scripts of his plays.

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