Julé! 03/31 - Quote of the Day

[kat_lair]

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"I like Scandinavians, skiing, swimming and socialists who realize it is our business to promote social progress by peaceful methods. I dislike football, economists, eugenicists, Fascists, Stalinists, and Scottish conservatives. I think that sex is necessary and bankers are not." - Lancelot Hogben

From Kunitz, S.J. and Haycraft, H. (1950) Twentieth century authors: A biographical dictionary of modern literature (3rd edn), New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, pp 658-9, as referenced on the Wiki page. 

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Comments

[moth2fic]

Nice!!

[kat_lair]

Came across it in a book on social problems.

[apiphile]

Okay friendship cancelled with *gestures vaguely at UK history*, now Lancelot Hogben is my new best friend.

[kat_lair]

Read the quote in a book on social problems/social justice and it tickled me.

[celli]

niiiiiiiiiiice

[kat_lair]

It made me grin.

[pensnest]

Lancelot Hogben is such a great name! A Bedfordshire chap, I suppose, since Hogben is a Bedfordshire name. And a very worthy fellow!

[kat_lair]

Wiki says he was born in Portsmouth. But yes an excellent name, interesting career!

[bluesbell]

Kat, apologies for this being the first comment I drop in years but I logged in after a few months and the first thing I saw was your user icon which made me go "OOF" and then "oh boy, I guess Kat doesn't know why they wrote that guy out of that show". Tl;dr in 2020 Cas Anvar was revealed to be a huge creep and sexual predator and got rightfully kicked out. Just an FYI in case this makes you want to choose a different Expanse icon!

[kat_lair]

Hey, firstly it's nice to hear from you, I didn't think you were around these parts at all anymore. Hope all is well?

Deep sigh. No, Kat has in no way kept up with news around that fandom or even the fandom really (show remains on my 'i shoul finish watching that' list). I really liked his character though 😣😣😣 Lawrence Fox effect...

[lunabee34]

What a great quote.

[kat_lair]

Ir definitely made me laugh

[pushkin666]

There is nothing about that quote that I don't love. Also, I'm assuming parents were fans of King Arthur, or certainly Lancelot. Great name.

[kat_lair]

Hee, I saw it in a book on social justice I was reading and loved it. Yes, great name!