Volume 5–2.pdf - U&lc

Did You Know That . ? The term` freelance" was invented by the
novelist Walter Scott to refer to itinerant mercenary soldiers who
sold their abilities to the highest bidder. At first such soldiers
were known as "free companions:'Since they usually traveled with
their own weapons (lances), Scott dubbed them"free lancers:'
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Uac's intrepid editorial and design director—
ever on the lookout for new ways to
delight our readers—is well known in the
trade for his predilection for anything to do
with 0's .Thus, when he happened on this
couplet recently, be eagerly pounced on it
and, herein, passes it along to you:
Who of vodka distilled from
potoomm000 partake,
Will be jolly at night, but
00000000000 when you wake.
The first line is easy to decipher: eight o's
are lined up, so clearly the word (by sound)
is potatoes. But what about those eleven
o's in the second line?Well, eleven is a
greater number than eight, right?So:
Who of vodka distilled from
potatoes partake,
Will be jolly at night, but
morose when you wake!
Unsolicited Ad for Duplicators. After
completing his book on the French
revolution, the great English historian
Thomas Carlyle gave the manuscript
to his friend John Stuart Mill to proofread.
By mistake, Mill's housemaid
used the papers to kindle a fire and
destroyed the entire manuscript.
Rather than destroying the maid,
Carlyle sat down undaunted and,
without benefit of notes, completely
reconstructed and rewrote the book.
The reworked volume was never submitted
for proofreading.
Attention, Writers! Samuel Taylor
Coleridge wrote his famous poem
-Kubla Khan" directly from a dream.
Coleridge was in the midst ofwriting
down the visions he had seen in this
dream when someone knocked on
the door and he rose to let the person
in. On returning to his work,
Coleridge found that he could not
bring back the rest of the dream.
That is why "Kubla Khan" remains
unfinished.
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Let's Face It. In 18th-century America,
portraitists journeyed from town to
town with an assortment of paintings
of men and women - complete in every
feature except the faces. A person wishing
to sit for his portrait simply had to
select the body he liked best, and let the
artist fill in the missing face and hair.
No Sole, Those Chinese.
Ancient Chinese artists freely
painted scenes of nakedness
and coition. Never, absolutely
not ever, would they depict
a simple bare female foot.