Only me singing
Ah, "Prisoner," or as it was more dramatically titled for export, "Prisoner: Cell Block H" - a veritable soap opera set in the land of the long weekend, Australia. This was no ordinary drama; it was a high-security women's prison where the inmates had more drama than a kangaroo at a tea party.
Launched in 1979, "Prisoner" was like the Australian version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" if instead of space, you were navigating the treacherous corridors of Wentworth Detention Centre. With 692 episodes spanning from 1979 to 1986, it was initially conceived as a short 16-episode series but, much like a prison riot, it got out of hand and became an ongoing saga.
The show was groundbreaking, not just because it was one of the first to feature a predominantly female cast, but because it tackled themes like feminism and, gasp, lesbianism with the subtlety of a sledgehammer in a china shop. The inmates were there for all sorts of crimes, from the mundane to the melodramatic, ...
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring
Snowin' and blowin' up bushels of fun
Now the jingle hop has begun
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time
Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square
In the frosty air
What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet
That's the jingle bell rock
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bell chime in jingle bell time
Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square
In the frosty air
What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet
That's the jingle bell
That's the jingle bell
That's the jingle...
David Daniel Ball calls himself the Conservative Voice.
I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence.
I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections.
I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. ...
"Hello, my name is David. I look forward to living in Lajamanu with you. I look forward to teaching you next year, so you achieve your dreams"
Here is the translation into Warlpiri:
"Ngaju, ngaju David. Ngaju nyampu Lajamanu-rlangu nyinaja yapa-kurlu. Ngaju ngurra-jarrimi nyampu yapa-ku karlipa-jarrija nyampu kiwirrkirli, kajika nyuntu palya-jarrimi nyampu ngurrju-warnu-ku."
Please note:
• "Ngaju" is used for both "Hello" and "I am" in this context, which is common in Warlpiri greetings.
• "Lajamanu-rlangu" indicates "in Lajamanu."
• "Yapa-kurlu" means "with people."
• "Ngurra-jarrimi" means "I look forward" or "I anticipate."
• "Kiwirrkirli" means "next year."
• "Palya-jarrimi" implies "you achieve" or "you become good at."
• "Ngurrju-warnu-ku" means "for your dreams" or "for your aspirations."
This translation is a basic attempt to convey the meaning in Warlpiri, but keep in mind that language nuances, particularly in terms of kinship, respect, and context, might ...
Grok has it that ‘Mary Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and one of the earliest advocates for women's rights, born on April 27, 1759, in Spitalfields, London. She is best known for her work "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792), where she argued for the education and equality of women, asserting that women are not naturally inferior to men but only appear so due to a lack of education.
However, that description is misleading in several aspects. Her work on the 'Rights of Woman' is now recognized as arguing for education and equality, but it was written to contradict Talleyrand’s report to the French National Assembly (1791), in which he asserted that women did not need education. Her book was a sequel to "A Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790), which itself was a response to Edmund Burke’s "Reflections on the Revolution in France." Burke had written that the revolution was not similar to Britain’s glorious revolution but rather akin to Britain's civil war. Burke viewed it as an overthrow of a ...
