I was just about to say whatever I was doing - but fearing that it might be
misinterpreted - was just for the 'Halibut'. But less we become the butt of
other people's humor or abuse, this pup is wagging off to dinner of Ak-Mak
hors d'eouvres, etc.
But thanks for the bark back, Mr. Hal - and be blessed that you are not
Mr.Rogers -then would have to hear that drive you insane song about the
neighborhood, bark, bark, bells et al.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> Good thing you're barking cheerily instead of the
> other way. If you're going to call me Mr. Hal,
> your tail had better be awagging.
>
> Hal
>
> "We are the zanies of sorrow."
> --Oscar Wilde
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> On Dec 4, 2006, at 10:06 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>> Mind you, Mr. Hal, a good ol' dog, by better definition, I gather,
>> if not
>> kneel is:
>> Copawcetic.
>>
>> But, mind you, as well, it was a famous dog who lamented,
>> "They flea for me."
>>
>> With that, not willing to take anything lying down, this remains,
>> still barking, cheerily:
>>
>> Stephen V
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>
>>
>>> Nice word--"copacetic." It may still have some
>>> life in it, sort of like an old dog that can barely
>>> walk, but will, if you kneel down and offer it
>>> your nose, give you a big, sloppy lick.
>>>
>>> Hal
>>>
>>> Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
>>>
>>> Halvard Johnson
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Max Richards wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>
>>>>> Sonnet: Best Possible Light
>>>>>
>>>>> Intelligent controllers agree that telecentric approaches
>>>>> to the early Beethoven sonatas yield more pleasure
>>>>> than twelve-course banquets ever did. When the best
>>>>>
>>>>> of friends sit down to simple meals of lab-bound pathogens,
>>>>> exciting opportunities knock on every locked and bolted
>>>>> door. The cooler atoms allow themselves to be captured.
>>>>>
>>>>> And if we canıt have that weıd have to wonder why. Or, if
>>>>> not, why neighborly persiflage now fails to mend fences?
>>>>> As always, conveniences morph into necessities among
>>>>>
>>>>> those who know better than let hotheads prevail. Dance-
>>>>> like melodies from the oboe answered by superheated
>>>>> rising fourths from the violins. And yet? No exit strategy
>>>>>
>>>>> will compensate for those stupid missteps at the outset.
>>>>> So weıll soldier on until, one fine day, all is copacetic.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hal
>>>>
>>>> Oh , Hal, always a tingle or several reading your sonnets.
>>>>
>>>> But copacetic?!
>>>>
>>>> First up on Google is:
>>>>
>>>> WeirdWords
>>>>
>>>> COPACETIC
>>>> Fine, excellent, going just right.
>>>>
>>>> Itıs possible that this word has created more column inches of
>>>> speculation in
>>>> the USA than any other apart from OK. Itıs rare to the point of
>>>> invisibility
>>>> outside North America. People mostly become aware of it in the
>>>> sixties as a
>>>> result of the US space programitıs very much a Right Stuff kind of
>>>> word. But
>>>> even in the USA it doesnıt have the circulation it did thirty years
>>>> ago.
>>>> Dictionaries are cautious about attributing a source for it,
>>>> reasonably so, as
>>>> there are at least five competing explanations, with no very good
>>>> evidence for
>>>> any of them.
>>>> etc.
>>>>
>>>> best from Max
>>>>
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