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Faust and furious

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S p rechen of Goethe , have a look at the viral 2017 letter to the FT by Cambridge Germanist Nicholas Boyle, the third volume of whose mammoth Goethe: The Poet and the Age , subtitled In the Shadow of Napoleon , covering 1803-1809 (the OUP listing for V3 mentions a fourth volume with no further info), is  due December 28, 2026: only twenty-three more years to go till Eckermann with the paragraph closing his Gespräche mit Goethe as he beholds the immortal G lying in resplendent state: The morning after Goethe's death, a deep desire seized me to look once again upon his earthly garment. His faithful servant, Frederic, opened for me the chamber in which he was laid out.  Stretched upon his back, he reposed as if asleep; profound peace and security reigned in the features of his sublimely noble countenance. The mighty brow seemed yet to harb...
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Dirty Debs* Done Dirt Cheap**

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*After Ed Powers and, in early days, Jamie Gillis **After AC/DC Original Australian cover to 1976 LP A nother Trending Search . D ebs's Nutty Buddy, whatever my blood glucose thinks, is to me the snack as crack and, among all Li'l Debs items at Walmart.com, with the highest % of 5-star reviews ( 88% ) to back me up.
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Hawaii One-Eight O-Eight

T rending Search at th' Goog': hawaii hurricane fausto Hohohohoho ! Just like brother Mephisto said, "Blood is a very special juice" (“ Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft ”), i.e.,  "How'd you like a nice Hawaiian Putsch?"  " Sicher! Gewiss! " A lightning wave of amphibious vehicles commences to roll from the Pacific onto Waikiki.
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'The Day John Kennedy Dined' by Vindaloo Reed

I was amused by this promo for JFK Grocery, Indian and in Jersey City, so named it seems for being on John F. Kennedy Blvd. I must have registered when I did some Christmas shopping with another New Jersey Indian grocer back in 2022. I hear they do clandestine deliveries - it's a secret service - by motorcade with drivers wearing Nehru jackets. No relation to the DC-based RFK, Jr. Grocery, with which the HHS commissary has a contract for grass-fed beef and raw whole milk. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: JFK Grocery < jfkgrocery2024@gmail.com > Date: Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 5:01 PM Subject: Don't miss it! 20+ items on deal 🔥 Ghee 33% off, Atta $16.99, free delivery $50+ To: JFK Grocery < jfkgrocery2024@gmail.com > JFK INDIAN GROCERY ...
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Why don't you go f*** yourself ...

... Smileactives tooth polish! I 've bitched for decades about the ageism rampant in our culture, an extension of the mindless cult of eternal youth in its belief that to be older is to be worn out, decrepit, dingy, unsexy (autocorrect: "unisex"), bigoted, uncool, you name it ... So there's this idiot commercial for Smileactives "pro whitening gel", and the lady announcer actually says something like this: "You can leave your teeth all yellow, like old Nana or Pop Pops - or you can get Smileactives and have teeth six shades whiter in just seven days!" The sick twisted nerve of those a-holes! I practically vomit every time they run that ad - so I am rather pleased to find that not only do I have company, but that their Trustpilot rating from users is a Poor 2.4 out of 5.0!
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Pairamaidix, or, 🎶 Then you find you're back in Vegas with a man handle in your jack hand (Do It Again ream-mix) 🎶, or, 🎶 Now, this is the tail for our castaways/They're long for a short, short time (feat. Al Inhale, Jr., Rustle 'Doc's' Johnson, GYM BACCHVS, BYM JACKVS, Bob 'Colorado' Springs and Gary 'Fort' Collins) 🎶

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Gilligan: It's very hard, watching this commercial . Professor: It is  difficult , isn't it? G illigan: That, too. Thurston  Howell III ( chin jutting out in " Long Island Lockjaw " ): It's like a morning announcement back at Howell HQ - it calls my staff to a tension . Skipper: Well, it's sure got me swatting my "little buddy" ... ...
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🎵 Well, I keep on thinkin' title-bout you, brother and sister, golden Ayer sur prizefighter 🎵

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S hould the editors of the TLS publish my just-submitted latest, below, a stylishly svelte 192 words on A.J. Ayer, Mike Tyson and Naomi Campbell, in their next biweekly issue (August 7), six weeks after my letter from June 26 on James Bryce*, I shall have broken my record from 2020 of eight weeks between letters. *Which latter letter has afforded us yet another reason to take Google AI Overviews with the usual crystallized sodium chloride: pace one such result from yesterday, subject to ever-revised replacement, it was not my letter on Bryce, but the one below mine, by the veteran center-right editor Daniel Johnson (son of the late author Paul Johnson) wot applied Bryce re Zionism and the Balfour Declaration to modern Israel. To the Editor: In his review of Twilight of the Dons by Colin Kidd ( July 24 ) , Richard Vinen describes the Oxford philosopher A.J. "Freddie" Ayer   as having felt aggrieved not to have found boxer Mike Tyson in prior recognition of his eminence. Bu...
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