Comments on: Dr Samuel Johnson: 300th Anniversary of his birth this week

By: lili

lili — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:33:41 +0000

I want to say – thank you for this!

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By: Tiresias

Tiresias — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:47:58 +0000

Samuel Johnson paid women the compliment of being as rude about them as he was towards men.

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By: difiance

difiance — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:13:07 +0000

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”.

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By: LORRAINE GOODRICH

LORRAINE GOODRICH — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:44:29 +0000

Vicus Scurra – I must say that you take life too seriously. The piece of writing about Dr Samuel Johnson is brilliant. It is so amusing and interesting that I despair for you that you have to take things so seriously and to heart.

Those were the days when people said what they thought and didn’t pretend to you due to political correctness. I would MUCH rather have someone like Dr. Johnson to speak/listen to than some sad politically correct pompous prat who’s up his own a***. He would be far more interesting than practically every person one meets today. Most sit on the fence and can’t get off it.

I have noticed that the people who take the most offence to comments such as those we’ve just read, are the ones who lack any confidence or self esteem. I have many Scottish ancestors and my mother is Glaswegian – I laughed at the comments about the Scots.

Bring it on is what I say. More of the same please. When people had freedom of speech and actually had personalities. Today, this stupid nonsense of not upsetting anyone has made most of you into zombies wondering around grunting and mindless. Give me a man of strength, character and opinion any day.

To those of you offended by this wonderful man I say – go get a life

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By: Vicus Scurra

Vicus Scurra — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:35:59 +0000

I suspect that I am not the only who Boris has riled by this little essay.
The typical Torygraph reader probably hasn’t heard that Sam Johnson is dead. For pity’s sake, Bozza, don’t go telling them that there is no longer an empire.

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By: Sparrow Fart

Sparrow Fart — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:53:06 +0000

Aye, aye… Dr Samuel Johnson is me great, great, great grandad alright. That explains why I’m so politically incorrect. And proud of it.

The French blow into the spouts of teapots to make them pour properly? I thought they spat into the spouts of their teapots to lubricate them to make them pour properly?

I have always thought that the backward Australians are so simple minded because they stem from shipped convicts.

And Heathersland’s great national hero of all time is Dame Elizabeth Who Ate All The Pies. And one of their bank holidays is called ‘ Sir Abdelbaset Al Magrahi Day ‘ which falls on 20 August. Fancy that.

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By: Pericles

Pericles — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:23:28 +0000

I’m having trouble finding it ; he didn’t really spell connexion that way, did he ?

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By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:12:30 +0000

Get on down there to Dr Johnson’s house!

http://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/

Dr. Johnsons House, 17 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE
By Tube
Temple (Circle & District Line), Holborn or Chancery Lane (Central Line).
By Bus
All routes to Aldwych, Chancery Lane, Fleet Street or St. Paul’s.
Bus numbers 4, 11, 15, 23, 26, 76 and 172 run along Fleet Street.

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By: catherine

catherine — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:08:00 +0000

It is a shame that we do not have the freedom to be as blunt as Dr. Johnson nowadays. I am so ticked off at Gordon Brown, the acid remarks I am storing up about Jocks wouldswamp Aberdeen! But people are individuals, not stereotypes. It is only Gordon I should like to chop into small pieces and serve up stuffed into a haggis skin.

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