I, for one[/b], blame Kathleen.

C'mon, Monica, we all want to hear at least an hour of one of your beautiful practice sessions while everyone is in the house. :p

When it's late on a Friday afternoon, one[/b] of my favorite things to do is post on the 1 thread.

TGIF, everybody!

This is post number 723.

3-2=1

brojek.

1 inch tall

If you were only 1 inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school.
The teardrop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool.
A crumb of cake would be a feast
And last you seven days at least,
A flea would be a frightening beast
If you were 1 inch tall.

If you were only 1 inch tall, you'd walk beneath the door,
And it would take about a month to get down to the store.
A bit of fluff would be your bed,
You'd swing upon a spider's thread,
And wear a thimble on your head
If you were 1 inch tall.

You'd surf across the kitchen sink upon a stick of gum.
You couldn't hug your mama, you'd just have to hug her thumb.
You'd run from people's feet in fright,
To move a pen would take all night,
(This poem took fourteen years to write--
'Cause I'm just 1 inch tall).

Shel Silverstein

This is a won [/b]derful place

I love Shel's poem's, always very clever, especially this one.

One-One was a racehorse
Two-Two was one too
One-One won one race one day
and Two-Two won one too

Just got back from my 7 year old's basketball game, where he got his 1[/b]st basket ever. He also got his 1[/b]st steal. I am bursting with maternal pride.

That's wonderful monica. I sometimes referee basketball matches for that age group and they are simply adorable.

Hahaha I've got one! This is my 250th post. 5-2 =..... DOH!

The frequency of the word one[/b] in 11[/b] Shakespeare plays:

All's Well That Ends Well: 56 times out of a total of 29,415 words
Anthony and Cleopatra: 37/ 32,695
As You Like It; 46/ 27,730
Hamlet: 47/ 39,476
Julius Caesar : 34/ 25,670
King Lear: 38/ 34,314
Love's Labours Lost: 74/ 31,498
Macbeth: 31/ 21,777
The Merchant of Venice: 48/ 26,885
Othello: 56/ 34,812
Romeo and Juliet: 58/ 31,903

The frequency of one[/b]s is for some reason highest in Love's Labours Lost (Monica Kern: why?)

Let not my love be call'd idolatry,
Nor my beloved as an idol show,
Since all alike my songs and praises be,
To one[/b] of one[/b] , still such and ever so.
Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore my verse, to constancy confin'd,
one[/b] thing expressing, leaves out difference.
Fair, kind and true is all my argument,
Fair, kind and true, varying to other words;
And in the change is my invention spent,
Three themes in one[/b] , which wondrous scope affords.
Fair, kind and true, have often liv'd alone,
Which three, till now, never kept seat in one[/b] .

(Shakespeare with nearly 5% one[/b])

Ragnhild

er... this one[/b] does not know why the frequency of "1" is highest in Love's Labour Lost. That happens to be one[/b] of the only Shakespeare plays I have never read [she says, hoping nobody calls her bluff on the other ten plays ].

But congratulations, buxtehyde and ragnhild, for raising the literary quality of the "1" thread to hitherto unsurpassed heights.

Since you are one professor of psychology, you shall be forgiven. Were you one English professor, thou wouldst suffer much embarrassment.

Yes, indeed. Wise words.
But still, a professor is a professor... aren't we entitled to expect... I mean...

Alright Monica, you'll get one[/b] chance more: - the psychology behind this sonnet then? (Please answer in exactly one[/b] thousand one[/b] hundred and one[/b] words).

MUSIC to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly,
Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one[/b] string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one [/b] pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one[/b],
Sings this to thee: ‘Thou single wilt prove none[/b] .’

Lucky to be excused - I am not the one[/b] who has studied languages and literature - I would think the second sone[/b]t (You're right Bux, I did not se that one[/b] ) made a good answer to the first..

But, Buxtehude are litterature or language your subject (and are you a professor maybe ?)

Ragnhild

Oh, Ragnhild, I'm sorry, I had misspelled sonnet (two n's, in fact) and edited it away, apparently right after you wrote your post. It's my fault!

No, literature is not my profession, weather is. I'm a climatologist. But that doesn't keep me from reading...

I am very happy you are not a language-teacher, Buxtehude - look what you've done[/b] to my spelling - as if it wasn't bad enough already.
(And it's Sone[/b]tte in Norwegian so I believed you..) - never trust a Dane

At least I know who to blame for all this bad weather (not the right day, though, this morning the sky looked like in my avatar).

And I am still happy to be , as Monica puts it :
And even more happy, Buxtehude to have reached "500" before you ....




Ragnhild

The First shall be the Last and the Last the First.

Alright then, congratulations!

Sorry Buxtehude, but I'm afraid you have some more editing to do (you must incorporate the number or word "one" into every post on the one thread)
First[/b] might be considered ok, but I'll give you one[/b] more chance for the post before that one[/b] ...


Ragnhild

Since I actually have a job I am paid--and expected--to do, I won't be able to write a 1101[/b] essay on this sonnet, but I WILL give you an excellent one[/b] sentence response:

All the answers to Shakespeare's questions are addressed in an absolutely terrific book I am currently reading, called "This is your brain on music," by Daniel Leviton. I was going to wait until I finished it and then start a thread reviewing it, but I'll give a little bit of foreshadowing... he summarizes all the cognitive neuroscience work on music perception and memory and explains why music affects us emotionally and how it is we are able to differentiate the sound of a piano from a violin and how we organize the soundwaves that hit our eardrums into pitch, rhythm, tempo, etc. Absolutely fascinating, but I have to get back to work before I hit that 1101 word mark despite my best intentions.

Monica, did I count three sentences in your one[/b] sentence response? Perhaps the fact that I am not a Ph.D. has caused me to miscount. I was once[/b] accepted into grad school, but I never matriculated. Life got in the way.

"Matriculated"!, I had to look that one[/b] up!

Monica, I'm the one[/b] who's looking forward to the thread about the Daniel Leviton book !

Ragnhild

Well, if I had said I was going to write a 3-sentence response I would have violated the rules of the "1"[/b] thread.

I am often guilty of using extremely long sentences which run on forever and never really say anything of value as this one[/b] is doing at this very moment in time. It is much better style, I think, to use short, concise, sentences whose meanings are clearly understood by any and all who care to read them regardless of the educational levels of those particular individuals in question.

I did learn to write more concisely in college, thanks to a rather curmudgeonly English professor who insisted on short sentences. It seems that I have reverted to my wicked ways over the intervening years.

By the way, Mr. S-H, matriculation always sounded to me like something that shouldn't be done in a public place.

I have just one[/b] step left...

That's one[/b] small step for Mankind, but one[/b] giant leap for (a) man.

No, I don't think I can; I don't think I will ever reach 500 posts.

I, for one[/b], think you just might be there very soon.

And in only four months (thats 4 x 1[/b]) rather than the almost one[/b] year it took me to reach 500.

Just gotta get ONE more post in before the first month of the year is over. =)