In the US, "quid" is always followed by "pro quo." Hal Serving the tri-state area. Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org <http://www.hamiltonstone.org> *Obras Públicas* *https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/halvard-johnson-obras-publicas* * * <http://www.hamiltonstone.org>*The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and Other Sonnets* http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets *Tango Bouquet* <http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en> *Theory of Harmony* * https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf * *Rapsodie espagnole* * https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf * * * *<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf>The Sonnet Project* * https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf * * * *<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf> G(e)nome* *http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf * On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:58 AM, David Bircumshaw < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > I rather like the poem: someone can enlighten me (I hope) though on this: > do > USA ape-descended creatures use the word 'quid' in their leaf-exchange* *I > mean money language? > > > > > On 13 August 2010 23:54, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Okay: neat. > > > > Doug > > On 11-Aug-10, at 10:05 AM, andrew burke wrote: > > > > A major clue: go to > >> > >> > http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/books-poetry/poems/article97706.ece > >> > >> Hope that helps. > >> > >> > >> Andrew > >> > >> On 11 August 2010 23:17, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask] > >> >wrote: > >> > >> Was it -well I did not see it :-( > >>> P > >>> Ps any clues?? > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > On > >>> Behalf Of andrew burke > >>> Sent: 11 August 2010 03:16 > >>> To: [log in to unmask] > >>> Subject: poem by Gatza > >>> > >>> 'Tempus Fidget' by Geoffrey Gatza at http://www.BuffaloNews.com< > http://www.buffalonews.com/> > >>> > >>> In response to oil well disaster. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Andrew > >>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > >>> 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at > >>> http://www.picaropress.com/ > >>> http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766 > >>> http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Andrew > >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > >> 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at > >> http://www.picaropress.com/ > >> http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766 > >> http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html > >> > >> > > Douglas Barbour > > [log in to unmask] > > > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > > > 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 > > > > if you dribble past five defenders, it isnt called sheer prose > > > > Tom Leonard > > > > > > -- > (David) "Dave no more" Joseph Bircumshaw > "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling" > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ >