Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:35:30 +0100
D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

 
 
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Scott Lurndal wrote:
 

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On 20 Feb 2025 00:40:03 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

The USA (or predecessor colonies) took out the buffalo (well, nearly)
and the passenger pigeon (permanently), but the DoDo and others were
the responsibility of others.

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I don't feel bad about the dodo, which apparently tasted fishy and =

greasy,

but the passenger pigeon was absolutely delicious we are told.  And I =

will

never have the opportunity to eat mammoth, sadly.
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Howard Waldrop's _The Ugly Chickens_ is one of the best SF stories ever
written but is not historically accurate regarding the flavour of dodo.
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IOW, this is /not/ "particular about Americans". At least, not when
historical events are listed.

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God may have given us dominion over the earth and the seas but that does=

=20

not seem to me to be a license to just wreck it all.

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My first introduction to environmentalism was when I was in my youth

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Likewise - My fifth grade teacher used Tom Lehrer's song _Pollution_
as a teaching aid.
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Tom Lehrer is excellent! He is the Donald Trump of public teachers! =D

Your fanboi troll attempts have worn me down; it's Bozobin time.

fu to aue only
--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.