Subject: | | Re: Interim Saints - April 1st |
From: | | "JJ.reardon" <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 9 Apr 2000 08:56:01 -0700653_iso-8859-1 April 9 – Venerable Scorner of This World’s Vainglory and Impermanence
The Venerable Priest Fray Antonio Maldonado; a native of Salamanca and the son of Noble and wealthy Parents; Primogeniture of considerable revenue, for which cause he was betrothed to the daughter of a Vassal Lord.
On the day of his engagement’s celebrations, he entered a tournament, richly adorned and gallantly dressed. That night he could find no rest, in consideration of the impermanence of the world’s glory; and so, in the morning, with gallant resolution, he fled to the Convent of Our Father San Francisco, where he took on [...]39_9Apr200008:56:[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Sat, 01 Apr 2000 20:20:43 -0500 |
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Very good...
----- Original Message -----
From: J. Michael Walker <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: Interim Saints - April 1st
> >mark wrote:
> >Well, that is enough for this April Fools Day.
> >
>
> oh no it's not - -
> There' still this:
>
> Einhard the biographer of Charlemagne
> was given a post quite outside his domain,
> for shirt size was his forte,
> yet he found the King's courtly
> endeavours, in error, his task to explain.
>
> jm
>
>
> >I've always had a feeling, for instance, that
> >Einhard the biographer of Charlemagne, got his job in Aachen by mistake.
> His
> >obsession with the great king's shirt and shoe size betray his origins as
a
> >tailor. Old Charles was probably a bit hard of hearing when Einhard
showed
> >up. The king asked the young man what he wanted and Einhard replied that
> he
> >was there to measure for new clothes. The king thought he said he was
> there
> >to take notes. I wonder what happened to the new scribe; probably the
> origin
> >of the "Emperor's New Clothes."
> >
>
>
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