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  1. Drunk Persians, Political Correctness, and Deceptive Advertising

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    November 23, 2016 by libroshombre

      Herodotus reported that the ancient Persians preferred getting drunk when deciding something important, and the next day, after sobering …
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    Category: advertising, grammar, magazines, manners, Michel Montaigne, punctuation, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , ,

  2. Stupidity, Waxed Tadpoles, and the Alamo

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    November 16, 2016 by libroshombre

      A few years ago Australian journalist Ali Clarke wrote about the “six degrees of dumbness.” These included being born …
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    Category: advertising, language, phonetics, thinking, translation, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

  3. Parrots, Programming, and the Bleeding Edge

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    September 27, 2016 by libroshombre

      Old Alexander Pope was on to something when he described good conversation as “the feast of reason and the …
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    Category: advertising, communication, computers, technology, translations, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , ,

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