I wondered what the holiday was in the USA. The 11/11 is Rememberance day in Australia. It is not a public holiday but the country does stop for a few minutes silence at the eleventh hour.
It is also called Remembrence Day in Canada. WW1 ended on the eleventh hour of the ekeventh day of the eleventh month. One of things I always did when I lived in Montreal was doante money and receive a poppy from veterans. But it occurred to me as the years go by who will be there to pick up the tradition? Canada has not really been involved in a conflict since Korea. The poppies are a remberence and refer to the poem In Flanders Field a poem we learned as children in school. I remember we used to stand in silence at 11am on 11/11.
This is the poem:
Flander's Field
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae 1872 - 1918
Ann: How did your test go? After the week you have had, I think you deserve an A+ (plus a lot of karma).
Jane: Congratulations on your successful talk!
And finally, since this seems to be Election Day here at HHW:
How many vote to have Jed post a photo of himself in his underoos???
A General Question To All
Every time I get an instant message or email message or whatever we call them here on the site, I get kicked out of my web browser, as soon as I get the notice that I have a message. It isn't a major problem ( think I have only gotten three or four since we moved to this site), but it does seem strange. it is probably just my old computer (I bought it at Tom Edison's garage sale).
Please let me know if any of you have had this problem. I don't want to report a Tech problem to Mark, if it is only my computer.
And finally, since this seems to be Election Day here at HHW:
How many vote to have Jed post a photo of himself in his underoos???
LOL! Thankfully, there is no photographic evidence that I ever had those Scooby Doo underoos. I'm pretty sure my mother has a picture somewhere of my adorable little 4-year-old self as Superman one Halloween, though.
From an article on the www
Pow! Crunch! Bam! Zowie! Gay!
by Randy Dotinga
While gay characters are fairly new, alleged gay subtexts aren't. Critics began complaining about gay content in the comics shortly after Batman and Robin started shacking up in a mansion above Gotham City. In the 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent, a Bellevue Hospital psychiatrist claimed he knew how to read between the lines in the Batman comic books.
He pointed out that Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, the alter egos of Batman and Robin, lived together in a "sumptuous" home with a butler and lots of pretty flowers in vases.
"It is like a wish-dream of two homosexuals living together," the author wrote, adding that Robin often walked around with his bare legs spread apart, exposing his crotch.
Only someone ignorant of the fundamentals of psychiatry and the psychopathology of sex can fail to realize a subtle atmosphere of homoeroticism which pervades the adventure of the mature 'Batman' and his young friend 'Robin.'
-- Frederic Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent
Wonder Woman, meanwhile, came under fire in a psychiatric journal for being man-hating and "plainly lesbian."
From
Holy Homosexuality Batman!:
Camp and Corporate Capitalism
in Batman Forever
by Freya Johnson
Dick dons his Robin costume in Batman Forever and the camera loving focuses on what looks like a glowing violet dildo showing through the codpiece of his uniform. 'We're not just friends,' says Dick, 'we're partners;' the next shot is the dynamic duo's clasped hands. Indeed, queer signification so saturates Batman Forever that it would be inaccurate to call it a subtext. With his earring, haircut and leather jacket Chris O'Donnell looks like he's just come straight from an ACT UP meeting, while Val Kilmer's body is exposed and eroticized only in the scenes with O'Donnell (as he wanders out of the shower bare-chested in towel, is treated for injuries, or puts on the new bat-suit while the image of his butt-cleavage fills the screen).
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