Not in the same bowl.
At 05:09 PM 5/8/2007, you wrote:
>*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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