*Peanuts* & olives? Always knew Paris isn't what it's written up to be.
I'd take Spike, though admittedly it's a poser.
mj
Mark Weiss wrote:
> I'm suddenly struck by the quality of the crowd I find myself in.
> Reminds me of a visit to a Parisian friend's home. After she'd put out
> the requisite peanuts and olives and opened a bottle she asked which
> I'd prefer, Spike Jones or Looney Tunes. It's good to know what the
> American Century's real accomplishments will have been once it's over.
>
> Mark
>
> At 03:58 PM 5/8/2007, you wrote:
>
>> Precisely.
>> mj
>>
>> Mark Weiss wrote:
>>
>>> I was thinking about his famous comment on water: "Fish fuck in it."
>>>
>>> At 01:52 PM 5/8/2007, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thus Fields's wished for gravestone inscription, "On the whole, I'd
>>>> rather be in Philadelphia", is not of course some profanation of
>>>> the sacrosanctity of the Beyond but a pious reminder (Philadelphia
>>>> being a kind of synecdoche of the Divine hereinafter referred to)
>>>> of Jane Lead's Message to the Philadelphian Society, to wit: " I am
>>>> your /*Immanuel*,/ who am the Tree of Life, that with variety of
>>>> Fruits will you feed: and as ye are a Fountain of Gardens unto me,
>>>> so will the golden Floods from pure Deity flow to water you
>>>> throughout."
>>>> Amen.
>>>> mj
>>>>
>>>> Mark Weiss wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Or a suddenly repentent WC Fields?
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Il ne faut pas toujours conter,
>> Citer,
>> Dater,
>> Mais écouter.
>> Il faut éviter l'emploi
>> Du moi, du moi, Voici pourquoi:
>>
>> Il est tyrannique,
>> Trop académique;
>> L'ennui, l'ennui
>> Marche avec lui.
>>
>> Marie-Françoise-Catherine de Beauveau, Marquise de Boufflets
>
>
--
Il ne faut pas toujours conter,
Citer,
Dater,
Mais écouter.
Il faut éviter l'emploi
Du moi, du moi,
Voici pourquoi:
Il est tyrannique,
Trop académique;
L'ennui, l'ennui
Marche avec lui.
Marie-Françoise-Catherine de Beauveau, Marquise de Boufflets
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