Ha ha ... Could apply over here too, Lawrence.
Androo
On 8 March 2012 00:53, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> No, no
>
> I was just waffling because your answer was better than anything I could
> say
>
> associated thought -- a steve bell cartoon
>
> Margaret Thatcher to Edwina Curry (cabinet minister, once in bed with John
> Major)
>
> THATCHER: what do we do when we are caught out, Edwina?
>
> CURRY: Talk bollocks, Prime Minister?
>
> THATCHER: Excellent, Edwina. Let's practice talking bollocks
>
> Apologies if I have quoted that before. It give sme comfort in my twilight
> years
>
> L
>
> On Wed, March 7, 2012 18:30, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> > But that was not a dull drive. Whatever else it so obviously was....
> >
> >
> > Doug
> > On 2012-03-07, at 6:43 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> >
> >
> >> A day dreary on both sides of the planet! Oh dear. I had an email from
> >> a friend in Mum Buy in India. He sounded bored.
> >>
> >> Dullness at 3 out of 4 of round earth's imagined corners, or was it
> >> coroners?
> >>
> >> But now all is changed. That's splendid detail.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you
> >>
> >>
> >> L
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, March 7, 2012 15:36, Andrew Burke wrote:
> >>
> >>> 1) I have a wooden leg and she was checking for Dutch Elm disease;
> >>> 2) I am the grandson of Douglas Bader and she often checks my leg
> >>> pulse; 3) I added that detail to add spice to a dreary day.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Andrew
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 7 March 2012 20:28, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> your leg?
> >>>>
> >>>> tell us more
> >>>>
> >>>> it's very dull here
> >>>>
> >>>> i've been fiddling with my own leg for over an hour
> >>>>
> >>>> L
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, March 7, 2012 14:21, Andrew Burke wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Between you, me and the fence post, my wife is a dreadful driver
> >>>>> -
> >>>>> nervous and indecisive ... and doesn't enjoy it at all. However,
> >>>>> she fiddles with the CD player, the air con, the windows, and my
> >>>>> leg as I drive ... Ha ha, watch out!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Andrew
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 7 March 2012 20:09, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> the day may come when Andrew's lady drives him…
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> meanwhile mine buys the car and lets me drive - while she is
> >>>>>> busy on the iPhone
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Max
> >>>>>> (glad not to be driving in the US)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 07/03/2012, at 10:49 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Manhattan poor Max how awful far away from Melbourne -hope
> >>>>>>> you survive P concerned Anyway why doesn't she drive you??
> >>>>>>> humff
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> >>>>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >>>>>>> On
> >>>>>>> Behalf Of Max Richards
> >>>>>>> Sent: 07 March 2012 11:41
> >>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: snap: change yr tune
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ring of truth, every so quietly. I'd drop the 'I' maybe.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Max in Manhattan momentarily
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 07/03/2012, at 7:25 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I got in the car,
> >>>>>>>> backed out of the garage, drove up the drive. The player was
> >>>>>>>> pumping out Miles Davis *On The Corner.* Picked up my wife
> >>>>>>>> at the front door. She started in to tell me how to drive,
> >>>>>>>> where to turn, *slow down!, don't play* *that music so
> >>>>>>>> loud!* I ejected Miles
> >>>>>>>> and played *Spanish Guitar.* She said,* Who's that?* I said,
> >>>>>>>> *John Williams*.
> >>>>>>>> She said, *Segovia is better.*
> >>>>>>>> I hit a speed hump.
> >>>>>>>> She said*, Slow down.*
> >>>>>>>> I said, *Don't repeat yourself,*
> >>>>>>>> and drove into the carpark to park in an easy bay. She said,
> >>>>>>>> *There's
> >>>>>>>> shade* *over there. Why didn't you* *park in the shade over
> >>>>>>>> there? * I said, *So you wouldn't have to*
> >>>>>>>> *walk so far, dear.* She huffed,
> >>>>>>>> then said *Thank you* ever so quietly.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Andrew
> >>>>>>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >>>>>>>> http://www.mullamullapress.com/QWERTY
> >>>>>>>> BLUE ROSE enovel avail. at Amazon, Smashwords and
> >>>>>>>> http://etextpress.com/books.htm
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Andrew
> >>>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >>>>> http://www.mullamullapress.com/QWERTY
> >>>>> BLUE ROSE enovel avail. at Amazon, Smashwords and
> >>>>> http://etextpress.com/books.htm
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -----
> >>>> Lawrence Upton
> >>>> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
> >>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
> >>>> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
> >>>> ----
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Andrew
> >>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >>> http://www.mullamullapress.com/QWERTY
> >>> BLUE ROSE enovel avail. at Amazon, Smashwords and
> >>> http://etextpress.com/books.htm
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----
> >> Lawrence Upton
> >> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
> >> Goldsmiths, University of London
> >> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
> >> ----
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> >
> > Latest books:
> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > Wednesdays'
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10
> > .html
> >
> >
> > The day will come when this will be given as a curious illustration of
> > the blindness of preconceived opinion.
> >
> > Charles Darwin.
> >
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>
> -----
> Lawrence Upton
> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
> ----
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
http://www.mullamullapress.com/QWERTY
BLUE ROSE enovel avail. at Amazon, Smashwords and
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