posted by Todd @ 9:44 PM
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Triomphe L'oeil
Tenor of Triomphe L'oeil (55-second captioned video clip)
Tenor of Triomphe L'oeil (55-second captioned video clip)
posted by Todd @ 9:44 PM
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BTW, call me a wimp. :) I wouldn't do it in the scenario as suggested in the vlog. I'm terra firma all the way!
Hey Todd!
I think this whole vlog idea is excellent! Maybe I should set up one myself?
As for Terra Firma, I have a much better idea. Stick around for five or ten years and boost your socioeconomic status. Then, with the affordabilities of accumulated savings, go to the moon, and bring all that is merry with you.
Still got a problem once you're there? Pay top dollar for maximum reliability for the trip home ASAP. Good as done.
Then again, how would history have changed if Clerc did the same?
-Endy.
Endy-
Nice to see you here! Glad to know you're enjoying my vlogs.
Maybe I should set up one myself?
I would like to see you do that! Somehow, and despite wearing a dapper Armani suit, I think having a headless ASL vlog would still miss the mark among the Deafblogland, though! ;)
Then, with the affordabilities of accumulated savings, go to the moon, and bring all that is merry with you.
:) I should be able to do that, as I didn't invest in real estate. But, then I'm getting off topic here!
Then again, how would history have changed if Clerc did the same?
Therein lies the $64,000 question! If Gallaudet's Clerc Center's website is any reliable, it appeared to be just as dicey for Clerc to come here or not.
His mother didn't want him to go; His bosses in France 'loaned' him for only three years. Luckily for him, there was a U.S. sugar daddy (Mason Cogswell), who presumably made the whole thing work out on the financial side.
Then the payoff really came, when for some unknown reasons, Clerc 'changed' his mind and stayed in America. That was when the fortunes for Deaf Education in early America really changed.
As for history being changed had Clerc 'waited' or changed his mind about going, well I still think that Gallaudet's dogged determination would have brought someone over eventually. I'm just glad it wasn't a Briton. ;) (No offense to BSL users! I just don't like the 2-hand alphabet.)
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:) I should be able to do that, as I didn't invest in real estate. But, then I'm getting off topic here!Whoops. My mind was still stuck in the year 2100, when presumably space travel could be purchased via a travel agency. (Gives a new meaning to 'Orbitz', eh?) :)
There's no way I'll ever be able to afford space travel in my lifetime, though! That's another topic for another day.
It does show how expensive Clerc's voyage probably was back then. I wonder if anyone knows how much a voyage Clerc undertook in 1816 would cost in today's dollars? At any rate, the ROI on Cogswell's investment in Deaf Education truly has been incalculable and priceless!
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