Remember "Always Elvis" wine, produced/labeled after his death. Col Tom
explained that "Elvis didn't drink wine, but if he did, he would have
loved this one."
jacquesdebierue wrote:
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>, "Neil Ian MacKillop"
> <rollotape@...> wrote:
> >
> > What happened to Boston? Massachusetts? Lest we forget! Everywhere
> else, except where he was born and died, Poe was just passing through.
> >
>
> The birthplace should be important, I think. But all these claims have
> more to do with tourism than with any serious claims. And Poe is dead,
> so he can be claimed. The most preposterous such claim was a recent
> one by a village in northern Spain claiming that it was "the cradle"
> of the _Spanish language_. Can you imagine a language as municipal
> property? Then another village, which also has an old manuscript in a
> type of Romance language, counterclaimed that they, too, are "the
> cradle". Absurd claims, something to boast about, get some tourists...
> By the way, the ancient document is a shopping list from an unknown
> person. It includes cheese...
>
> So, if people can claim that a language is municipal-born, Poe can be
> claimed by, say, Hawaii, on the basis that he would have loved to go
> there or something like that.
>
> Best
>
> mrt
>
>
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