Oh pretty please!
KMight even be some cheese in it for you.
At 05:49 PM 8/28/2007, you wrote:
>>Is the Rodent Dangermouse, by any chance?
>>
>>Candice
>
>More Dormouse than Dangermouse, alas.
>
>Perhaps even (re)Vole(ting).
>
>But, with thanks to those -- Barry, Roger, Peter, and now Candice --
>who noted my return (though Roger may have noticed a more extended
>post about the same time on New Poetry) [and with less thanks to the
>person -- yes, you know who you are!-- who, backchannel, described
>my elegant extension of Mark's post, linking turtle pigeons to
>floating Dysons, as not simply folk etymology but as cod
>entomology. Hrumph!] ...
>
>However, to extend that "but" above, but.
>
>I've been slightly preoccupied with _A Blast For Blowens_, which is
>at long last beginning to be written (good -- from my point, at
>least), but (less good) now unnervingly stretches from the origins
>of cant in England in the 1530s to a series of historical novels,
>the last published just after the turn of the millennium, dealing
>with Sir John Fielding, blind magistrate of Bow Street and brother
>of the (in)famous novelist.
>
>Not to bore everyone (would I ever? especially as I've been warned
>not to), I won't even deploy the few tiny snippets of possibly
>original material that have turned up in the course of this. As,
>only last night, a few lines in Thomas Randolph's __Hey for Honesty,
>Down with Knavery_ (1650), or a singularly interesting short poem
>reported by Thomas Mount on the eve of his execution in Rhode Island
>in 1791, which indicates that American criminals in the late
>nineteenth century were aware of ballads being sung on the streets
>of London only ten years earlier.
>
>Unless, of course, I'm asked, pretty please.
>
>For now.
>
>Dun Rodenting
>
>>--- Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>>Best line in the film:
>>>
>>>"I...have HAD...ENOUGH of...you!"
>>>
>>>Dominic
>
>snip ......
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