on 10/17/03 3:36 PM, Alison Croggon at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> My daughter is short and dark haired, and I have never been able to
> manage her in the least.
Alison, Alison, Alison, Alison! Never but never (oh!) expect to 'MANAGE your
daughters'!!! This from one who has the sour-sweet experience of having NO
daugthers at all! My wonderful daughters-in-law indeed! Will they cut it, I
wonder? Wonderful, wonderfulpersons / people they are!
Hmphhhh!
> She is, I admit, not Icelandic: she's a
> genuine kallakantzaroi - her heritage goes back to the Pelloponese,
Sorry? A Kalla-what? Come again and all that!
> born on Christmas Day, and I neglected to burn the bottom of
> her feet when she was a baby
Oh, I get even sorrier, Alison! You simply don't BURN your baby's bottom, or
any part thereof! As far as I'm concerned, you wipe it as soon as the need
arises! No? Please do elaborate on the verb to 'burn' in this particular
context!
> I've been paying for it for thirteen years.
> Worse, she's getting taller and seems to be managing _me_.
Try giving her a kick in the shins and check her reaction! Teenagers are a
species to contend with - and lose. And we're only saved (barely) by their
self-destructive element!
> At 11:01 PM -0400 16/10/03, Árni Ibsen wrote:
>> Perhaps we should allow women to speak
>> up now and then, no? Is it safe?
>
> Most certainly not, on both questions. It's the end of civilisation
> as we know it.
>
> Looking forward to seeing your flaxen hair and florid complexion, and
> being bowled over by your muscled intellect -
I'll 'flax' my nigh gone-to-the-dogs hair in the northern wind for you
southern-hemisphere-person-you, Alison! Indeed, you'll recognize me by it
all in the so-called AIRPORT up here!
Best
Árni
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Árni Ibsen
Stekkjarkinn 19,
220 Hafnarfjördur,
Iceland
tel.: +354-555-3991
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