'Mad Dog" Bertie Russell & Unitarianism

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o--o--o--or that Mad Dog was the Atheist among the "It's all one, dude" crowd.
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From: "Monte Davis" <monte.davis at verizon.net>
> Mark sez:
>  
> > I am going to risk being way wrong in suggesting 
> > some reason(s) why TRP may have used the term "Mad Dog" 
> > w/r/t Bertrand Russell.  
>  
> All good. As champion of the obvious, I'll add that
>  
> 1) a purely joke-y anachronistic reference to Noel Coward's 1932 song "Mad
> Dogs and Englishmen" (namesake for a Joe Cocker album in 1971) would not be
> too weird from the author who in Mason & Dixon invented the 18th century
> idiom "simpleton silver" (chump change), and created a Hudson Valley Girl
> who sprinkles "as" where her descendants will sprinkle "like"....
>  
> 2) for the kind of Krazy Kutup who would do that, your point -- that "BR
> wasn't even close to deserving the phrase" -- might appear to be be all the
> more reason for applying it.
>  
> As B4,
>  
> G.E. "Wild & Crazy" Moore
> Ludwig "Big Mouth" Wittgenstein
>  
>  


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