Olé Oriens wrote:
>My dear Crockers, I remember it well, for I was that young fellow.
Well, i'll be jiggered.
gettin so's a young fellow could learn something bout every day, he kept up
with this larned list.
>But how kind of you to call me young!
not at all.
figure of speech.
>I much prefer it to the 'ole Oriens' of a previous reference.
no accounting for taste, i suppose.
of course, that was in the days before i'd masteréd the trick of
inserting accentéd characters into émail.
to paraphrase the Bard of Hibbing: "i was so much older then; i'm younger than
that now."
best make that "Olé Oriens".
question still remains, O.O., if i may wax pseudo-Chaucerian with my new-found
skill, after you have tosséd your pearlés before the swinés of this listé, how
can you expect to get even your most fleesable countrymen to *pay* for same?
best,
c
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