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I laughed. Bill On 08/11/2012, at 3:51 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I sort of recall them being on sale in the bookshops here, but never knew anyone who actually read them. This was some time ago.... > > Funny? Who thought so...? > > Doug > On 2012-11-07, at 6:20 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> >> >> I don't find them very funny myself and don't know any who does >> >> There is a film from many years ago -- mid century - that was mildly >> amusing with Ian Carmichael I think and Alastair Simm >> >> I have an occasional liking for Simm, and that may be an >> Englishperson's response, but... >> >> It's all largely an oddity to me >> >> >> >> L >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" >> To: >> Cc: >> Sent:Wed, 7 Nov 2012 16:58:12 +1100 >> Subject:Re: pat snap _-=*_-=*_-=* >> >> Am I right in thinking that Stephen Potter and his Lifemanship books >> are enjoyed mainly within the British Isles, and that Americans, >> Canadians, Australians…would not find him and them very funny? >> >> M Richards >> >> On 07/11/2012, at 1:34 PM, Bill Wootton wrote: >> >>> Hope the dire results were not ingested, Patrick. For miasmatically >> you can certainly claim coinage; spontaneously, I note in a recent >> acquisition from one M Richards, was a memorable signing off flourish >> mentioned by Stephen Potter in Lifemanship, as in Yours spontaneously. >>> >>> Cheers, Bill >>> >>> On 07/11/2012, at 11:18 AM, Patrick McManus wrote: >>> >>>> FRIDGE >>>> >>>> his fridge >>>> poetry fridge >>>> had sadly >>>> spontaneously >>>> defrosted itself! >>>> with the direst >>>> results imaginable >>>> and the contents >>>> have definitely >>>> miasmatically >>>> gone off! >>>> >>>> >>>> pmcmanus >>>> r213 >>>> I just love miasmatically!! > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Latest books: > Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962 > Wednesdays' > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > Transforming once reasonable human beings into gullible idiots is one of the biggest businesses we have. > > Charles Simic > > > > > > > > > > > > >