ain't got tha pig-flu...ain't bin with yew so hows could i?

ray, yews hurt me feelins yew do. tha diana done gone an said somethin' an yew blamin' me fer it. well lets me tell yew...me an me boys be rite well edjumacated. why, gist last week, cletus and elroy wint an took one of them thar tests wut tells yew how smart yew r an all. elroy answered all tha questions rite the 3rd time 'rond, he even knowed who sang "your cheatin' heart". But cletus be stupider than a chigger and he couldna remember how many vienna saugages cums in a jar, or wut tha stuff hangin' off oak trees is.

The Thinker

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Artist	Auguste Rodin
Year	1902
Type	Bronze and Marble
Location	Musée Rodin, Paris

The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze and marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin held in the Musée Rodin in Paris, France. It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle.^[1] It is often used to represent philosophy.

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Originally named The Poet, the piece was part of a commission by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris to create a monumental portal to act as the door of the museum. Rodin based his theme on The Divine Comedy of Dante and entitled the portal The Gates of Hell. Each of the statues in the piece represented one of the main characters in the epic poem. The Thinker was originally meant to depict Dante in front of the Gates of Hell, pondering his great poem. (In the final sculpture, a miniature of the statue sits atop the gates, pondering the hellish fate of those beneath him.) The sculpture is nude, as Rodin wanted a heroic figure in the tradition of Michelangelo, to represent intellect as well as poetry.

Rodin made a first small plaster version around 1880. The first large-scale bronze cast was finished in 1902, but not presented to the public until 1904. It became the property of the city of Paris – thanks to a subscription organized by Rodin admirers – and was put in front of the Panthéon in 1906. In 1922, it was moved to the Hôtel Biron, which was transformed into a Rodin Museum.

More than any other Rodin sculpture, The Thinker moved into the popular imagination as an immediately recognizable icon of intellectual activity; consequently, it has been subject to endless satirical use. This started in Rodin's lifetime.

Dear Miya,

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I know you and the boys are deep thinkers. For example, knowing what stuff hangs of oak trees, I don't know what hangs off oak trees, was it Dick Turpin?, or some other outlaw? Who sang  'Your cheatin' heart.' Wasn't that Christian Barnard? How many sausages in a jar? I definitely pass on that one.

Anyway, it is nice to see you back Miya. the end of that seegar must be mighty wet and chewed by now! Say hello to your nice niece Diana; now she IS a classy lady!