Comments on: Dear Brigham: “You May Some Day Find Your Fatty Sides Tarred and Feathered” http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/09/dear-brigham-%e2%80%9cyou-may-some-day-find-your-fatty-sides-tarred-and-feathered%e2%80%9d/ Where our past is never very long ago Sat, 18 May 2013 04:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bookslinger http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/09/dear-brigham-%e2%80%9cyou-may-some-day-find-your-fatty-sides-tarred-and-feathered%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-88864 Bookslinger Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:11:24 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13684#comment-88864 aka a “Dear Sir, You Cur” letter.

]]> By: andrew h http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/09/dear-brigham-%e2%80%9cyou-may-some-day-find-your-fatty-sides-tarred-and-feathered%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-87392 andrew h Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:58:46 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13684#comment-87392 Wow, who would have guessed that the phrase “Baby Daddy” had its origins all the way back in the 1850′s.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/09/dear-brigham-%e2%80%9cyou-may-some-day-find-your-fatty-sides-tarred-and-feathered%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-87284 Ardis E. Parshall Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:58:12 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13684#comment-87284 When I looked up the source citation to send to Mina, I used “porpoise-like” as my search term. Oddly enough, this letter was the only document in my vast database to return a hit.

]]> By: Mina http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/09/dear-brigham-%e2%80%9cyou-may-some-day-find-your-fatty-sides-tarred-and-feathered%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-87279 Mina Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:14:50 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13684#comment-87279 I don’t know about you guys, but I’m going to be inserting “Porpoise-like body” into a lot of my correspondence from now on.

Ardis, I have a strictly professional and scholarly reason for wondering where you came across this letter and its date. I respect your protection of your research on this blog, but if you don’t mind sharing this info, please email me?

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/09/dear-brigham-%e2%80%9cyou-may-some-day-find-your-fatty-sides-tarred-and-feathered%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-87264 Ardis E. Parshall Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:59:25 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13684#comment-87264 Yes, E., some hate mailers could take lessons — the hate’s the same, but today’s wording is rather pedestrian, to judge by the stuff that gets caught by my excellent spam filter.

Underlining, kevinf, heavy underlining. In the dinosaur days of typewriters, we underscored book titles and ship names and other material that would have been italicized if we had been setting type in a printshop, and it’s a convention now to italicize material that was underscored in handwritten or typewritten documents.

Thank you, Matt, I can’t tell you how honored and flattered and nearly breathless with pleasure I am to have your most excellent participation.

]]> By: Matt http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/09/dear-brigham-%e2%80%9cyou-may-some-day-find-your-fatty-sides-tarred-and-feathered%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-87255 Matt Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:33:15 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13684#comment-87255 Since I have nothing better to do, and find that this comment box is good for nothing else, I will condescend to comment and state that I found this letter highly amusing.

]]> By: kevinf http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/09/dear-brigham-%e2%80%9cyou-may-some-day-find-your-fatty-sides-tarred-and-feathered%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-87254 kevinf Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:22:36 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13684#comment-87254 As this letter proves, trolls did not originate with the advent of the Bloggernacle.

I was wondering about the italicized words in the letter, prior to the invention of word processing. How were these in the original?

]]> By: E. Wallace http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/09/09/dear-brigham-%e2%80%9cyou-may-some-day-find-your-fatty-sides-tarred-and-feathered%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-87229 E. Wallace Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:56:28 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13684#comment-87229 This is amazing. They just don’t write hate mail like they used to!

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