Anastasios
I think you've accidentally got hit by the flak. I wasn't thinking of you
for sure, but rather busy getting enraged by a not-Kent's perpetual antics,
which of course do not exist, and are never ever of a bullish nature.
best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "ANASTASIOS KOZAITIS" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: Don't Call Me Ishmael, etc.
> You missed my point, Dave.
>
> As I read many of the sonnets from afar because I could not sent to the
> list due to difficulties I was having, I noticed that most of the sonnets
> were written in a Shakespearean format and with a Shakespearean take.
>
> My poem was one that was in quite an American vein -- Melville/Crane.
>
> That's all.
>
> Am I owned? Hmmm...Are not the families Blair and W. lunching today?
Give
> me a break...
>
> --Ak
>
> At 04:39 PM 7/19/01, you wrote:
> > > In case you haven't noticed, half of all Americans are now wearing at
> >least
> > > one tattoo
> >
> >My learning curve increases. You mean that there are people on this list
who
> >define themselves as Americans. I sometime call myself a Brit but only
for
> >the sake of a joke. But now it seems that this is a list made of not of
> >people, as I formerly thought it, but of let us say 'professional
> >Americans' ( no offense meant to quite a few btw who are from the States
but
> >not wishing to emulate Hollywood, State Department foreign policy or Coca
> >Cola in their presence) and everybody else, who are just waiting to be
> >owned.
> >
> >Jeez
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "kent johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:28 PM
> >Subject: Don't Call Me Ishmael, etc.
> >
> >
> > > AK,
> > >
> > > In case you haven't noticed, half of all Americans are now wearing at
> >least
> > > one tattoo. A high percentage of these are in close proximity to
sexually
> > > useful parts of the anatomy. Half of those with tatoos are driving
> >Harleys.
> > > May I suggest something a bit pithier than "sweetheart" or "baby"?
> > >
> > > "Don't Call me Ishmael, Asshole," Or "Don't Call Me Ishmael, Bitch,"
would
> > > be much more fetching and in tune with the boat drifting across the
seas
> >of
> > > 5,000 years.
> > >
> > > Nice poem, sweetheart.
> > >
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