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JUTTASBURG ADDRESS
Four score hours and seven ago a 'baker brought forth on this forum a new notion, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men and women of the 'bakery are interested in meeting each other.
Now we are engaged in a great festival of pointless
idea conception, testing whether that notion or any notion so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
We are met on one of the great web fora of the world. We have come to dedicate a portion of our time as a final testing-place for those who here gave their working lives that that notion might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave 'bakers, living and deleted, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract, by croissant or fishbone. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honoured ideas we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these ideas shall not have been in vain, that this notion under a stale half-a-croissant shall have a new birth of freedom, and that amusement of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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This seemed *appropriate*? |
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[Deleted Jinbish's redundant copy of
this text outside "Halfbakery:".] |
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In my copious spare
time, I just started reading John
McWhorter's polemic "Doing Our Own
Thing". McWhorter observes that
enjoyable formal oratory such as that of
the
Gettysburg address (and the longer
piece that preceded it) has all but
vanished from American (sorry, Aussies)
culture; we neither speak like that nor
are prepared to listen to someone else
do it. |
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I felt it timely, and representative of the feelings of relief and admiration apparent in our community. |
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It is true that the public at large have become intolerant of didactic addresses such as this. In my observation this is likely due to our increasing weariness with our continual bombardment, via television media, of corporate and personal self-promotion. We have adapted to a much more cynical world and see through, or believe we see through, the hype. |
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We don't believe it anymore, after seeing it for smoke, time afer time. |
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[UnaBubba], I think the actual problem with oratory is that it takes too long. TV has gotten everyone into a habit of expecting the topic to change wildly (re: commercials) every few minutes. |
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The man could write, that's for sure. The "better angels of our nature" line kills me every time. |
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Hey, I liked it. Well done, UnaBubba. |
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"...the actual problem with oratory is that it takes too long" |
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This from our own [Vernon] |
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I love well written speeches. I think I'm voting for the Lincoln/UnaBubba ticket this time around. What is their stand on public funds for nose hair reduction? |
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I still get to hear speeches at the end of peace rallies, some of which are quite reasonable. |
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Speeches are out there, but you have to find them. The best speeches set out the grounds for change so you really have to go where change is sought. |
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jutta: every night several million Americans dial into late night television shows to listen to people give monologues. Those may be informal and humorous in nature, but several million more tune in on Sundays mornings to listen to Charles Osgood formally discourse on sundry subjects. Culture doesn't vanish, merely morph. |
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//that we here highly resolve that these ideas shall not have been in vain, that this notion under a stale half-a-croissant shall have a new birth of freedom, and that amusement of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.// |
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Allow me, [land]. [marked-for-deletion] |
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On what basis, [simonj]? Are you having a hissy fit about your pisspoor glow worm thing being marked as bad science? |
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Four-square and several beers ago, our forefathers brought
froth upon this land... |
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[thanks to Bob Newhart, I think...] |
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"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
At least not without extensive psychotherapy. |
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//At least not without extensive psychotherapy.// |
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