I have used Kermit. It may have been CP/M or maybe BSD.
Same era as Telnet.
Dont know if there are Easter Frogs.?
I spent Easter 1971 in Greece, on an island off most of the tourist beats… Local people brought us hard boiled eggs died various colours… My mum spoke to one of the old Kiria (wives/widows - head to foot dressed in black) and got recipes for dying eggs, I think brown onion skins was one ingredient… We were also there for “Carnival” and Lent. Was just reading about Carnival - seems it was more popular in Greek places that had a Venetian influence (this island was Kythera [called Cerigo by the Venetians] - and it was variously abandoned, occupied by Byzantines, then Venetians, raided by Turkish pirates, the Venetians again, ceded to the French during the Napoleonic years, then ceded to the British along with Corfu - before Greek independance from Turkey). I also had my 9th birthday there (in April) around that time… Magical time…
Photo of me and my siblings wearing Carnival masks :
(I’m wearing the Viking mask)
Also - Orthodox celebrates Easter at a different time from Catholics and other derived protestant churches… “Greek Easter” 2024 is not until May! In 1971, “Greek Easter” Good Friday was 18/04/1971 (Catholic Good Friday was the week before).
Happy Easter everyone - if you’re that way inclined (I’m not - became an atheist in 1973)…
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Hi Shiela,
Just a thought
Have you read Ronald Knox?
He has some very insightful statements , a bit like Chesterton,
but not as prolific
Example
from a sermon called “Mind and Matter”
" Things matter, because there is somebody who minds"
Knox also wrote detective stories
Example
“The Footsteps at the Lock”
Regards
Neville
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No, I had not even heard of him. But research has him a contemporary of Chesterton:
He played an important role in detective fiction. Knox admitted he didn’t always follow his Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction (commandments like “the detective must not himself commit the crime”). Still, these commandments had a huge impact on Golden Age Detective Fiction. One year after his commandments were published, Knox joined the Detection Club, which accepted them as unofficial bylaws. G.K. Chesterton was the Detection Club’s first president. Other noted members included Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.
He worked in espionage. Because Knox had reservations about priests taking lives, he didn’t enlist in active service when World War I started. From 1916 to 1918, he worked for Military Intelligence in a division that read foreign newspapers to trace enemy propaganda in neutral countries. His brother Alfred also worked in intelligence—as a codebreaker in both world wars.
He was a contemporary of C.S. Lewis. Knox’s two periods as an Oxford chaplain coincided with C.S. Lewis’ Oxford years teaching at Magdalen College. They didn’t know each other well, but they met in the 1930s through Dr. Humphrey Havard. When they met, Lewis reportedly called Knox “possibly the wittiest man in England.”
He anticipated Orson Welles. “Broadcast from the Barricades” had many jokes written into the script, was announced a week earlier in The Radio Times, and had an opening statement that the program was fictional. Despite this, several hundred panicking people called the authorities. A decade later, Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds program created a similar panic.
I read a few of his famous quotes and now my interest is piqued. I will have to add him to my List to Read:
“Humility, rather than want of faith, made Gideon ask for a sign, a miraculous sign, that this strange vocation was really meant for him. And Almighty God saw fit to indulge his request.”—Miracles
and
“What I have written does not belong to me. If I have written the truth, then it is ‘God’s truth’; it would be true if every human mind denied it, or if there were no human minds in existence to deny it.”—preface to an unfinished book on apologetics, quoted in The Life of Ronald Knox
Thanks,
Sheila
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I like Dorothy Sayers too.
She is famous for her translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy
but she also wrote detective stories. Her detective was Lord Peter Wimsey.
and she wrote what is considered the greatest ever mystery novel … “The Nine Tailors”
and she also wrote nonfiction. My favorite is “Mind of the Maker”
Sayers was the first female to graduate from Oxford. Quite an achievement.
and, if you can find a book called “The Great Mystery of Life Hereafter”… Sayers contributed a short article which is an excellent account of Christian doctrine.
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Wow. That I did not know. And suddenly my reading list is long. Since you told me about Father Brown, I started reading it. Next I will need to see about this Lord Peter Winsey. I am a detective novel buff. Often television either ruins a good story or does not hook the viewer the way the written word does.
But I just found “Mind of the Maker” in the archives. It seems there was a documentary made, but have not checked it out. So it will be my current alternate. I often alternate between one fiction and one non-fiction book to be read at the same time–sneaking snippets of each whenever I have just a few moments to spare. 
Thanks,
Sheila
So am I. You will enjoy “The Nine Tailors”. I will not explain the title. You will come away with an appreciation of life in an Anglican parish in 18th century East England, an understanding of Campanology ( bell ringing) and a great mystery experience featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
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What a great thread this is!! Yes, I too have increased my reading list with this one. I do need to pay more attention to this website! Meanwhile I’ll go back to the top and read the original post and look at the Chesterton book. I’ve read some of him and both he and C.S. Lewis were important to me in early life. Dorothy Sayers is a name I’ve heard, but I don’t remember reading. I’m delighted to have bumped into you all.
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Hi Anita,
Chesterton and Lewis were contemporary
I think , of the three, I prefer Dorothy Sayers
although I also have a soft spot for Ronald Knox.
A strange side-issue… all 3 ( Chesterton, Sayers, Knox) wrote detective stories.
Not sure about Lewis?
Someone once wrote a Thesis on the correlation between Christianity and detective
stories. I must try and find it…
Regards
Neville
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Had no idea this was such a complex talent. After reading through the New Year’s event (with Lord Wimsey in attendance) I was astounded. I always thought someone just “pulled the rope.”
I wish Kindle dictionary had better resources for some of the ancient English words and phrases, but most I have been able to define.
Thanks,
Sheila
Bell ringing was the internet of the middle ages… a mix of artistic expression and communication.
Our internet today could do with an artistic component.
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