Howdy!
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 2:44 AM Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at
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> Thanks for the ref.
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> So there really is someone with the surname, 'Mannix'!
It appears that that spelling started appearing in the late 18th
century in the US, and cursory research suggests it's ultimately of
Irish origin in other spellings that go back farther.
yours,
Michael
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> Am I the only one who remembers the long-running US TV series of that name?
> Mannix was a PI.
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> On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, 11:08:44 PM MST, xxxxxx@gmail.com <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 4:42 PM Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> I fell asleep last night in chap 16. It's a little dry. If I find anything I could make use of I'll let you know. But I'm only a bear of little brain on such subjects so others may be able to make more of it.
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> Well... it is macroeconomics....dry like the desert.... ;)
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> I still recall a brilliant book on corporal punishment and its history ("The History of Torture") that was soooo dry that you could almost here the author's typewriter spilling sand onto the pages. What made it brilliant was the writing was so dry and the subject matter gory and horrific (but informative) that literally everyone I loaned the book to found themselves laughing at parts. His descriptions of botched executions and so on was so dry and awful that it just had a great quality of dark humour about it.
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> https://www.amazon.ca/History-Torture-Daniel-P-Mannix/dp/044013613X/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1599717509&sr=8-2
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> Mine had a different cover, but this is the book. The kindle version is reasonably priced. Everyones' reaction to it reminded me of the South Park Movie... almost everyone broke out laughing their guts out, no matter age or world view, and yet man felt a certain horror or embarrassment at laughing at the humour embodied therein. This book could be really grim, but for the folks that borrowed mine (I got it for $1 or so at a garage sale) were mostly history majors or people who had studied history at least so the horror and the gory parts were expected.
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> Horrors aside, it shows the extent to which corporal punishment was used for a variety of reasons (testing, purification, due to debt or other crimes, as a political message, etc).
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