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NoGOPZone

(2,971 posts) Tue Feb 7, 2012, 04:46 PM Feb 2012

Happy Birthday to Charles Dickens, born 200 years ago today

I didn't like reading him as a high school student, but I love him as an adult

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/appetite-for-dickens-strong-on-200th-birthday-28221740.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fworld-15749633%252Fappetite-for-dickens-strong-on-200th-birthday-28221740.html

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Happy Birthday to Charles Dickens, born 200 years ago today (Original Post) NoGOPZone Feb 2012 OP

a couple of big Victorian CDs around now dmallind Feb 2012 #1

I guess he's going to get drunk tonight. bikebloke Feb 2012 #2

Happy 200th Birthday! LeftishBrit Feb 2012 #3

dmallind

(10,437 posts)

1. a couple of big Victorian CDs around now

Reply to NoGOPZone (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 04:55 PM

Feb 2012

Charles Darwin was 2/12 IIRC - born just a few years apart too.

Good competitors in the bushy beard race at that.

bikebloke

(5,260 posts)

2. I guess he's going to get drunk tonight.

Reply to NoGOPZone (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 05:22 PM

Feb 2012

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)

3. Happy 200th Birthday!

Reply to NoGOPZone (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 06:14 PM

Feb 2012

Bet you'd find a lot of fodder for your books nowadays - wish you were around to write them! (For starters, Scrooge as a right-wing government minister trying to smear Tiny Tim and his family as undeserving benefit claimants!)

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