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A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
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A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress is an autobiographical book published in 1802. The author, Lord Timothy Dexter, was an eccentric American businessman who got rich by making a series of horrible business decisions that, due to luck, turned out to be extremely profitable. note An example of one of these horrible business decisions: Sending coal to Newcastle. As in a place built on the coal-mining industry (thus the phrase "Coals to Newcastle" meaning "giving them something they have too much of already"). What happened just before it got there in the middle of winter? The coal miners went on strike.The book has no punctuation and capitalization is seemingly random. To "fix" this, he placed a page of random punctuation at the beginning and instructed "The Nowing Ones" to "solt and pepper as they pleased." As for the content, it's basically the author ranting about various things that irritate him and displaying his poor knowledge of how politics work.You can read it here. | |
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Starfish Language | |
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Starfish Language: The lack of punctuation combined with terrible spelling and grammar might make it appear to have been written in some sort of bizarre alien language with a passing resemblance to English. | |
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Artistic License – Linguistics | |
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Artistic License – Linguistics: Reading this book is not recommended if you are a Grammar Nazi. You will most likely end up needing a gigantic can of Brain Bleach. | |
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Punctuation Shaker | |
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Punctuation Shaker: His idea on how to solve the No Punctuation Period problem. | |
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Anti-Intellectualism | |
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Anti-Intellectualism: In the form of discouraging people from going to college. | |
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Born in the Wrong Century | |
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Born in the Wrong Century: Timothy apparently sent a text before shipping some bibles to the East Indies; roughly about 200 years before texting was invented. | |
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Love Freak | |
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Love Freak: The author talks about peace and love often enough to qualify for this trope. | |
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context | |
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: Practically every sentence! | |
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Corrupt Church | |
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Corrupt Church: Despite clearly being religious, the author seems to have a very low opinion of the clergy. | |
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No Punctuation Period | |
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No Punctuation Period: The author responded to complaints about this by giving the second edition an extra page full of punctuation marks, with the suggestion that the readers "solt and peper it as they plese". | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different: The author's wife is referred to as a "gost"; this is because, by this point in Dexter's life, his relationship with his wife had soured so badly that he began to pretend she had died, introducing her to guests as "the ghost of my wife". | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Dexter speaks highly of this in the book and implies he used this tactic himself, stating that he hired cunning men as runners and encouraged them to "act the fool", while making it clear that he understood the value of using this as cover to corner the market on commodities that other people didn't recognize were valuable. | |
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Amoral Attorney | |
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Amoral Attorney: Lawyers are mentioned in the same breath as priests and the Devil, with the insinuation that the world would be better off without them. Earlier in the book, the author claims to have been nearly beaten to death by a lawyer. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: The book can certainly get this way at times. Particularly whenever the author starts philosophizing. | |
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Satan | |
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Satan: Mentioned frequently. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: The author's birth is presented this way. | |
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The Good King | |
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The Good King: Apparently, the author aspires to be one of these (just replace the word "king" with "emperor"). | |
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SpearCounterpart | |
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Spear Counterpart: Timothy Dexter can be considered the eighteenth century equivalent of Tara Gilesbie, complete with the possibility that he may have actually been a brilliant Troll. | |
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