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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 ......