Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:42:24 03/18/00
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On March 18, 2000 at 13:45:59, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >Well Fenando: Thing is, I was just making a funny anology. In the tv show, they I Know, I know, I was just recalling some ocious facts stimulated by your entertainign post. By the way, this Shaftner is a kind of character that has ever produce to me some laugh: old, weary, tired and not too much witted and nevertheless stubbornly rescuing the universe. Well, there are worts soap operas after all. :-) Fernando >have this comma nder guy played by John Lithgow, who is the Supreme Commander. >But the group of Aliens sent to investigate Earth have to report back to this >guy, played, not inaprobriately by William Shatner (who you may recall, played >the swaggering commander of the Starship Enterprise, James T. Kirk), the Big >Giant Head. I think it makes as much sense that Aliens would not call thier >total compleat leader, President or King or what ever, but would have thier own >title, translated to english as, BIG GIANT HEAD. I feel that way about >Kasparov. Fide World champion is too small a title for him... > >Larry T. > > >On March 18, 2000 at 12:45:34, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi Larry: >>I agree with you, but let me add an anecdote to entertain your leisure: Bobby >>Fisher, whom, according to your definition, was a very big head of the game in >>the 60's, has, in fact, a somewhat small or at most average real head. >>Incredible enough, the old and preposterous asociation between intelectual >>perfomance and size of the skull still keeps an stand, at least in the current >>verbal usage. Sometimes the usage goes beyond. Two or three days ago I saw a >>aparently serious CNN note about the big heads of taxi drivers in London and >>they said such thing happened because they were more intelligent, compelled, as >>they are, to memorize thousands of streets and so "trainning" his brain. So the >>argument went: you memorize streets, so you train your intelligence, so the >>brain grows, so the skull grows also. Funny; a soft thing bending a very hard >>thing. Another anecdote: Anatole France, a french man of letter gifted with >>great talent, maybe genius, had a so small head that his bran weighed more or >>less like that of an ape. The same with Joseph Haydn. And the biggest brain ever >>collected when collection of brain was in fashion was propiety of an idiot. So >>maybe your clasification should be called not the "big head" of chess, but the >>best head of chess. Sorry for these: just weekend ruminations. >>Cheers >>Fernando
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