Comments on: The October 2007 General Election? http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/ Chris Brooke's Weblog Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:36:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 by: Michael http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116940 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:52:48 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116940 <i>I can’t even get away with saying that I mistook it for the 80th anniversary of Prokofiev’s Cantata for the Anniversary of the Revolution, as that was for the 20th anniversary, and will therefore only be 70 years old…</i> On the other hand, Eisenstein's <i>October</i> is 80 - which means that just about every documentary about the revolution will illustrate it with 80-year-old footage, in the absence of authentic 90-year-old footage of the real thing. So it's a perfectly understandable mistake, if mistake it be. I can’t even get away with saying that I mistook it for the 80th anniversary of Prokofiev’s Cantata for the Anniversary of the Revolution, as that was for the 20th anniversary, and will therefore only be 70 years old…

On the other hand, Eisenstein’s October is 80 - which means that just about every documentary about the revolution will illustrate it with 80-year-old footage, in the absence of authentic 90-year-old footage of the real thing. So it’s a perfectly understandable mistake, if mistake it be.

]]> by: chris y http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116810 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:24:20 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116810 <i>You pays your money and you takes your choice.</i> I choose Balaclava then. At least part of one side was using the Gregorian Calendar. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

I choose Balaclava then. At least part of one side was using the Gregorian Calendar.

]]> by: Gobannian http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116747 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:56:32 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116747 I always thought it was in honour of Abergavenny Thursdays, the world fampus football team. But maybe not. While I'm here, can I recommend a very full and honest account of what is going on in Baghdad as a result of the invasion. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/20047.html For some obscure reason, the Washington Bureau of a set of very obscure newspapers has been head and shoulders above the rest of the US media. I always thought it was in honour of Abergavenny Thursdays, the world fampus football team. But maybe not. While I’m here, can I recommend a very full and honest account of what is going on in Baghdad as a result of the invasion.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/20047.html

For some obscure reason, the Washington Bureau of a set of very obscure newspapers has been head and shoulders above the rest of the US media.

]]> by: Chris Brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116625 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:44:23 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116625 Yes. I can't even get away with saying that I mistook it for the 80th anniversary of Prokofiev's Cantata for the Anniversary of the Revolution, as that was for the 20th anniversary, and will therefore only be 70 years old... Yes.

I can’t even get away with saying that I mistook it for the 80th anniversary of Prokofiev’s Cantata for the Anniversary of the Revolution, as that was for the 20th anniversary, and will therefore only be 70 years old…

]]> by: ejh http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116619 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:30:28 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116619 Ninetieth surely? Ninetieth surely?

]]> by: Chris Brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116583 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:27:15 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116583 I'd completely forgotten about Great October Socialist Revolution Day. Eightieth anniversary and all. I’d completely forgotten about Great October Socialist Revolution Day. Eightieth anniversary and all.

]]> by: Cliche Guevara http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116349 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:40:54 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116349 Surely not an anti-clerical thing, because if people have all gone to Church in the morning, the priest will tell them how to vote that day. So that's the day of the week the Church would be most able to influence the state, so any gesture of Church-state separation would be a little counterproductive. Surely it's just because nobody works on a Sunday (traditionally, and especially more so on the Continent), so it's seen as more democratic (for want of a better expression) as nobody will be unable to vote because they have to work. Surely not an anti-clerical thing, because if people have all gone to Church in the morning, the priest will tell them how to vote that day. So that’s the day of the week the Church would be most able to influence the state, so any gesture of Church-state separation would be a little counterproductive.

Surely it’s just because nobody works on a Sunday (traditionally, and especially more so on the Continent), so it’s seen as more democratic (for want of a better expression) as nobody will be unable to vote because they have to work.

]]> by: Caroline http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116314 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:04:12 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116314 25 October is also Great October Socialist Revolution day (at least it is if you're in Ethiopia or anywhere else still using the Julian calendar...) 25 October is also Great October Socialist Revolution day (at least it is if you’re in Ethiopia or anywhere else still using the Julian calendar…)

]]> by: ejh http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116267 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:12:07 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116267 <i>Yes, they do. Is it an anti-clericalism thing?</i> Dunno. Might be here in Spain I suppose, since the Church was never that keen on elections. Possibly sort of anticlerical faux-ignorance: "what, Sunday is supposed to be some sort of religious festival? Stone me! What's all that about then?" Yes, they do. Is it an anti-clericalism thing?

Dunno. Might be here in Spain I suppose, since the Church was never that keen on elections.

Possibly sort of anticlerical faux-ignorance: “what, Sunday is supposed to be some sort of religious festival? Stone me! What’s all that about then?”

]]> by: Matthew http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116255 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:47:47 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/09/26/the-october-2007-general-election/#comment-116255 Looking at the Times in 1935, the reason it was on a Thursday was because Parliament was dissolved on a Friday, and candidates could only be nominated after 10 days, so that made a Monday, and then the election had to be 10 days after than, which made a Thursday. Looking at the Times in 1935, the reason it was on a Thursday was because Parliament was dissolved on a Friday, and candidates could only be nominated after 10 days, so that made a Monday, and then the election had to be 10 days after than, which made a Thursday.

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