Hmm, said Person may have been after that stash.
Just as I reckon when the guy said 'is it rolling Bob?' he was talking
about those Jaffas down the aisle.
J
On Monday, January 3, 2005, at 09:59 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> so the person from Porlock was just after sweets?
>
> and then Coleridge not only abandoned Kubla Khan, the director's cut,
> but
> flushed his stash down the toilet; to be asked
>
> Hi Sam, got any minties?
>
>
> L
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 02 January 2005 22:34
> Subject: Re: The suckableness of contemporary American poetry
>
>
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> One thing about Minties is that they don't have plain brown wrappers,
>> but white, red and green ones which are slightly waxy. One favourite
>> bit of sport is to attempt to tear the wrappers in such a way as to
>> make one long strip. Whenever I eat a Mintie, which is rare these
>> days,
>> I do this almost automatically. Yes, it is very sad, I know.
>> Especially
>> when the Person from Porlock is probably knocking on the door.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Jill
>>
>>
>> On Monday, January 3, 2005, at 01:02 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>>
>>> At 12:49 AM 1/2/2005, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm glad to know that the Minto Review is the most prestigious
>>>> journal in
>>>> the US, even though I keep misreading it as the Minty Review. This
>>>> has
>>>> pleasant and very suckable associations for me.
>>>>
>>>> http://users.chariot.net.au/~dan/minties/about.html
>>>
>>> Very well, Alison, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is
>>> to
>>> ship
>>> several cases of Minties in plain brown wrappers into the States for
>>> the
>>> Minty-deprived who live here. These little things sound as though
>>> they
>>> will have an effect upon us akin to the effect laudanum had upon
>>> Coleridge. "Kubla Cohen, a dream written under the influence of
>>> Minties."
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Kenneth
>>> Wolman
>>> <http://www.kenwolman.com>http://www.kenwolman.com
>>> http://kenwolman.blogspot.com
>>> "Death is a young poet's romance, and an old man's
>>> business."--Richard
>>> Avedon, photographer, 2002
>>>
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