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On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 16:13 -0700, Clay Shannon wrote:
> There=E2=80=99s no accounting for Taste.
> 
> That=E2=80=99s basically why they broke up.
> 
> But then again, that=E2=80=99s probably too obscure a joke, as i may
> be the o=
> nly Rory Gallagher fan here.
Not True...
> 
> > 
> > On Nov 2, 2017, at 2:30 PM, Robert STEWART <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:=
> > 
> > =20
> > Not everybody loved Twain's lecture on the Quaker City tour. On
> > April 19, =3D=
> > 
> > when Twain was giving that talk in San Francisco and other Western
> > towns, t=
> =3D
> > 
> > he editor of the Marin County Journal, on April 19, on page 2, col.
> > 1, wro=
> t=3D
> > 
> > e:
> > Sickening.=3DE2=3D80=3D94The San Francisco papers are going into
> > raptures o=
> ver Ma=3D
> > 
> > rk Twain's lecture on "Pilgrim Life." This miserable scribbler,
> > whose lett=
> e=3D
> > 
> > rs in the Alta, sickened everyone who read them, and of which the
> > propriet=
> o=3D
> > 
> > rs of that paper were heartily ashamed has the audacity and
> > impudence to a=
> t=3D
> > 
> > tempt to lecture to an intelligent people.
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