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	<title>Comments on: The Shit Canal (A Saint Patrick’s Day Reverie)</title>
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		<title>By: Sheila Ryan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sheila Ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you don&#039;t already know him, it&#039;s worth trying to wrap your mind&#039;s tongue around the conventions of &#039;dialect humor&#039; for the sake of discovering &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Finley%20Peter%20Dunne&amp;index=blended&amp;page=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Finley Peter Dunne&lt;/a&gt;. A very good starting place would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Dooley-Peace-Finley-Peter-Dunne/dp/1434692256/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1205769471&amp;sr=8-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mr. Dooley in Peace and War&lt;/a&gt; (1898). Half of the pieces collected in this volume -- those in which Mr. Dooley holds forth on &quot;War&quot; -- treat specifically of the Spanish-American War.

Another sample, wherein once again Martin Dooley addresses Hennessey:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Wan iv the worst things about this here war is th&#039; way it&#039;s makin&#039; puzzles f&#039;r our poor, tired heads. Whin I wint into it, I thought all I&#039;d have to do was to set up here behind th&#039; bar with a good tin-cint see-gar in me teeth, an&#039; toss dinnymite bombs into th&#039; hated city iv Havana. But look at me now. Th&#039; war is still goin&#039; on; an&#039; ivry night, whin I&#039;m countin&#039; up the cash, I&#039;m askin&#039; mesilf will I annex Cubia or lave it to the Cubians? Will I take Porther Ricky or put it by? An&#039; what shud I do with the Ph&#039;lippeens? Oh, what shud I do with thim? I can&#039;t annex thim because I don&#039;t know where they ar-re. I can&#039;t let go iv thim because some wan else&#039;ll take thim if I do. They are eight thousan&#039; iv thim islands, with a popylation iv wan hundherd millyon naked savages; an&#039; me bedroom&#039;s crowded now with me an&#039; th&#039; bed. How can I take thim in, an&#039; how on earth am I goin&#039; to cover th&#039; nakedness iv thim savages with me wan shoot iv clothes? An&#039; yet &#039;twud break me heart to think iv givin&#039; people I niver see or heerd tell iv back to other people I don&#039;t know. An&#039;, if I don&#039;t take thim, Schwartzmeister down th&#039; sthreet, that has half me thrade already, will grab thim sure.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you don&#8217;t already know him, it&#8217;s worth trying to wrap your mind&#8217;s tongue around the conventions of &#8216;dialect humor&#8217; for the sake of discovering <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Finley%20Peter%20Dunne&amp;index=blended&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">Finley Peter Dunne</a>. A very good starting place would be <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dooley-Peace-Finley-Peter-Dunne/dp/1434692256/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1205769471&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Mr. Dooley in Peace and War</a> (1898). Half of the pieces collected in this volume &#8212; those in which Mr. Dooley holds forth on &#8220;War&#8221; &#8212; treat specifically of the Spanish-American War.</p>
<p>Another sample, wherein once again Martin Dooley addresses Hennessey:</p>
<blockquote><p>Wan iv the worst things about this here war is th&#8217; way it&#8217;s makin&#8217; puzzles f&#8217;r our poor, tired heads. Whin I wint into it, I thought all I&#8217;d have to do was to set up here behind th&#8217; bar with a good tin-cint see-gar in me teeth, an&#8217; toss dinnymite bombs into th&#8217; hated city iv Havana. But look at me now. Th&#8217; war is still goin&#8217; on; an&#8217; ivry night, whin I&#8217;m countin&#8217; up the cash, I&#8217;m askin&#8217; mesilf will I annex Cubia or lave it to the Cubians? Will I take Porther Ricky or put it by? An&#8217; what shud I do with the Ph&#8217;lippeens? Oh, what shud I do with thim? I can&#8217;t annex thim because I don&#8217;t know where they ar-re. I can&#8217;t let go iv thim because some wan else&#8217;ll take thim if I do. They are eight thousan&#8217; iv thim islands, with a popylation iv wan hundherd millyon naked savages; an&#8217; me bedroom&#8217;s crowded now with me an&#8217; th&#8217; bed. How can I take thim in, an&#8217; how on earth am I goin&#8217; to cover th&#8217; nakedness iv thim savages with me wan shoot iv clothes? An&#8217; yet &#8216;twud break me heart to think iv givin&#8217; people I niver see or heerd tell iv back to other people I don&#8217;t know. An&#8217;, if I don&#8217;t take thim, Schwartzmeister down th&#8217; sthreet, that has half me thrade already, will grab thim sure.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Deron Bauman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Deron Bauman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think that guy read everything. he wrote everything anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that guy read everything. he wrote everything anyway.</p>
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		<title>By: Sheila Ryan</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/the-shit-canal-a-saint-patrick%e2%80%99s-day-reverie.html/comment-page-1#comment-34627</link>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve heard tell, though I can&#039;t swear that it&#039;s so, that the fellow who wrote that book that started out with &lt;em&gt;riverrun, past Eve and Adam&#039;s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay&lt;/em&gt; -- well, that he had read this bit of ephemera by Finley Peter Dunne.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve heard tell, though I can&#8217;t swear that it&#8217;s so, that the fellow who wrote that book that started out with <em>riverrun, past Eve and Adam&#8217;s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay</em> &#8212; well, that he had read this bit of ephemera by Finley Peter Dunne.</p>
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