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Q: We’ve been getting a lot of questions about an alleged Winston Churchill quotation and I’m trying to verify if it’s genuine. The story is that when Churchill was asked to cut funding to the arts in order to support the war effort in World War II, he responded “Then what would we be fighting for?” Have you ever seen this quote? I’ve seen a lot of sources saying that it’s fake but I would love to get your opinion.
💬 Dan Evon, Snopes.com
The quote came to mind about 80% through Ken Burns Brandeis address.
[🔗 📼 You can watch it here.](Ken Burns, H’24 Keynote Address to Brandeis University’s 2024 Graduates)
Speak as if you know what you’re talking about. Listen as if you don’t. Act as a way to find out.
💬 Mark Manson
N I C E
The 🍎🗞️ widget has suddenly appeared on my desktop - did I accidentally press something - or is this the U2 debacle reframed for 2024?
You Just Can't Tell. Nobody Can.
I love listening to knowledgeable 🎵 people steeped in ‘the lore’, ‘the history’ .. I can swim in it forever. An inevitable question appears somewhere in the conversation .. “did you know it was going to be a hit?”
no clue mate
… is the usual and correct response.
Same with newsletters. You just can’t tell. I keep reading over and over different writers that are surprised when their ‘magnum opus’ falls flat and a ‘throwaway’ goes viral.
My throwaway newsletter from a couple of days ago gave me an equal numbers of unsubscribes and subscribes … no viral accelerator for me .. but after being flat for over a year - my ‘paid subscriptions’ increased by around 10%. Not only that, but the subscription broke a psychological barrier - paid for subscriptions hit ‘double figures’ 🥳
The point is that you just don’t know - right?
If you want to read it - 🔗 you can
History ‘scholars’ weighing in on this 🔗 LinkedIN post .. I can’t be bothered to join in.
For me - YUP … Count me with the Luddites
The point of this post is more about language changing .. over time words get co-opted and they change and come to mean something different .. oft' through more and more people not having the full understanding of the origins. Shame really. I’m all for language changing .. I just wished people wouldn’t change the meaning just because they don’t understand the nuance .. or worse that they don’t know.
At least that footy player said in front of the world that he didn’t know what ‘encyclopedic’ meant.
Maybe he ‘could care less’ (sic) … another peeve.
🔗 George Conway predicts Trump won’t be unanimously acquitted in hush money trial (🍎🗞️)
.. been thinking that myself - and when it happens how THAT will get spun into puke and bile.
🎈148/366 Talking about ‘series’ .. as we are in the process of closing out ‘May’ - I finally got round to updating my 🖇️ 🔎 366 series
🖇️ Back then I was undecided whether the early images constituted a series. This morning I hit ten - so I hereby declare that 🖇️ we do in fact have a series.
📸 🌊 A different approach today. Caught this one at just gone 7am.
And then over the space of the next hour …
An hour later …
It’s neither here nor there there really when you add up what a holiday to New Zealand is going to cost you .. but still …
“(‘The Govt’) is also considering nearly tripling an entry tax on tourists to almost $100 a visit.
.. aren’t there more pressing problems?
Today I ‘Learned’ that Baron is a time traveller who is here to cement the Trump dynasty … or something like that … and people wonder why I like living under my rock.
🎈147/366 I’m enjoying it but I’m feeling that the pitch was Sliding Doors meets Doctor Who.
📸 🌊 Definitely a choice today … this one, because it is a little different the the others to date.
🔗 😂 Impeach Nixon! - a lesson from history.
The ‘Tiny Pod’ 🚧
is indeed a thing to 🔗 behold - for those of you that have a watch but don’t want to wear it on your wrist?
I know it’s 🔗 here - but I have to look it up every time. Of course ‘every’ shouldn’t be too many - but sadly - not the case.
📸 🌊 Just Another Day
🎈146/366 Today Is My Anniversary 🚧
It’s 🔗 Towel Day ( thank you @odd ) - but today also happens to be my 25th Anniversary
Yup - 25 years. Truth be told it had been going on a lot longer - but it was 25 years ago that we actually tied the knot .. and I have had my ‘personal space’ on the internet ever since May 25th, 1999 (Creation Date: 1999-05-25T20:14:36Z).
Now of course, we had known each other a lot longer than that - long before the web in fact, but you know when you first connect you don’t really note the dates do you? It’s like a permanent honeymoon. Hours merge into days into weeks into months … who really knows when ‘it’ really all started?
I can tell you that I first got ‘involved’ with the internet in 1985. I mean it wasn’t what we know today. My own internet experience in those days was email around our international offices .. but it was the internet (ok, ok - intranet - there’s a word you don’t hear much these days.)
Although Google Trends suggests I am wrong …
.. again!
Anyway, I do remember being annoyed that my messages wouldn’t go out to the people I wanted to talk to - you know customers, partners, vendors - all the people a business should be talking to. .. we could only talk amongst ourselves. I mean the Cerne account team could connect to their customer .. why did I have to use Compusurf (sic)? … but that’s a different story.
( .. and no I didn’t do AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve .. they were never for me - maybe even back then I had the innate desire to avoid being locked into a silo.)
Anyway, that’s it … 25 Years with my 🔗 own domain ✅
Onwards.
How will I celebrate? Why - taking my towel down to the beach of course.