You so-and-so Roger. Wait till I tell Vicky. Nasty nasty nasty.
You will get told off about this.
All the Best
(wink)
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
Not to disappoint anyone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davros
On 12/9/05, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'll pass over the davros crack, my dear Granpa, afficionadoes of Dr Who
> might get it, but it doesn't apply to me. (btw we discovered something the
> other day - the lifts all went down in our tower block - the Vixen, who is
a
> poor poor litle disabled girl, had to get down from my pad, which is on
the
> 6th floor, to her own, which is on the ground. This involved Vicky going
> backwards hand over hand down the fire escape stairs while I lugged her
> zimmer - which weighs a ton - down too. We did it in under five minutes,
> about which I'm impressed, as I've always had this covert fear about what
if
> there was a fire alarm? Twas too just after we talked to certain rodent on
> the phone - no wonder things went mad)
>
> All the Best
>
> dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Mc Manus" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
>
>
> > Yup davros if one was not then a lunkhead one could google it !which
> states
> > that there is no known derivation
> > My personal theory is that it was evolved to describe a rabid rodent
> > doormouse
> > P loving P
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> > poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> > Sent: 09 December 2005 15:49
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
> >
> > Yup, Grandpa, I think we all know what 'lunkhead' means, as in usage,
> > question is what's its derivation?
> >
> > Thereupon the great minds are puzzled.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Patrick Mc Manus" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
> >
> >
> > > lunkhead
> > >
> > >
> > > ("lVNkhEd)
> > >
> > > A blockhead. Hence lunk"headed a., thickheaded, stupid.
> > >
> > > 1884 'Mark Twain' Huck. Finn xxii. 225 So the duke said these
> Arkansaw
> > > lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare. 1889 A. W. Tourgee in
> Chicago
> > > Advance 19 Dec., You dear old lunkhead, I congratulate you! 1901 J.
A.
> > Riis
> > > Making an American 315 A miserable little lunkhead quite beyond hope.
> > 1885
> > > J. Hill Corsairs 19 Prospecters tearfully eloquent to the horny-handed
> > (and
> > > lunkheaded). 1908 Daily Chron. 23 July 3/2 Now do you see, you
> lunkhead?
> > > 1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves v. 52 A lunkhead capable of mucking
> things
> > > up as Gussie had done. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris ix. 165 They
> are
> > > not all lunkheads or mountebanks. 1966 Punch 7 Dec. 868/1 The poor
> > > lunkhead's concerns soon get lost under all the modelling and
> > backlighting.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers P lunkhead P
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> > > poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joanna Boulter
> > > Sent: 09 December 2005 11:54
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
> > >
> > > I only said you were a lunkhead because you had assured me the job was
> > going
> > >
> > > to be just so damn easy you could do it more or less blindfolded.
> That'll
> > > larn you!
> > >
> > > What *is a lunkhead, anyway? I came across the term in some book or
> other
> > > many years ago now, liked the sound of it, and went on using it.
> > >
> > > joanna
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 10:45 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
> > >
> > >
> > > > From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >
> > > >>I live in Perth, a city wrapped around a river called the Swan
River.
> > > >
> > > > Shouldn't that be "Perth", Andrew? The *real* Perth is located in
of
> > > > course Scotland.
> > > >
> > > > I once passed a roadsign in England alleging the existence of a town
> > > > called Moscow. Singularly unlikely, and I didn't bother to visit
it.
> > You
> > >
> > > > shouldn't believe everything you read on road signs, as anyone who
has
> > > > tried to navigate the winding motorways of Britain knows well.
> > > >
> > > > (Singularly fatuous early morning pre-coffee email, but I feel like
> > saying
> > >
> > > > something now my internet access is firmly re-established. As is
the
> > > > successful reformatting of another computer anent which I solicited
> > > > assistance yesterday. I will thank backchannel the three people who
> > > > responded and saved my ass. And ignore the fourth who sent a rather
> > cruel
> > >
> > > > email stating that I was a lunkhead.)
> > > >
> > > > The Red Rodent
>
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