Rather Polite of Him, Wouldn't You Say?
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From: on 24 Nov 2006 19:19 In article <1164300905.555485.93190(a)h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Alistair <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >docdwarf(a)panix.com wrote: >> In article <4sk3gpF10c8huU1(a)mid.individual.net>, >> Pete Dashwood <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> >Pete (who knows where his heart is...) >> >> You got a heart? During my Sergeanting-Daze there were those who swore >> that I had no such organ... just a thumpin' gizzard. > >He probably keeps his heart in a jar under the stairs. A Classice Joke from the Oldene Dayse: 'So your (relative) is/has performing/performed (accomplishment)... that's nothing! My (relative) is at (prominent institution of higher education)... in a jar in a display-case!' DD
From: Pete Dashwood on 25 Nov 2006 01:54 "Mark Wallace" <mwallace(a)dse.nl> wrote in message news:ek7vru$it0$1(a)aioe.server.aioe.org... > Alistair wrote: >> Pete Dashwood wrote: >>> "Alistair" <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote in message >>> news:1164300905.555485.93190(a)h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... >>>> docdwarf(a)panix.com wrote: >>>>> In article <4sk3gpF10c8huU1(a)mid.individual.net>, >>>>> Pete Dashwood <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [snip] >>>>> >>>>>> Pete (who knows where his heart is...) >>>>> You got a heart? During my Sergeanting-Daze there were those who >>>>> swore >>>>> that I had no such organ... just a thumpin' gizzard. >>>>> >>>>> DD >>>> He probably keeps his heart in a jar under the stairs. >>>> >>> No, my brain is in a jar, in between the times I need to acquire a new >>> body >>> for it... :-) >>> >>> My heart was broken and discarded long ago... <sob> :-) >>> >> >> I too had my heart broken a long time ago. I also wrote a poem. >> Unfortunately it was an epic load of shite and has long been discarded. >> I have only tried twice since then to write poetry, in the form of >> blues ditties. Sadly, I've managed to misplace them so you can thank >> your God that you will not be subjected to poetry on a par of the Vogon >> Captain (see Hitch-Hikers ...) > > I know exactly what you mean, and how the trauma of being deprived of > something important to you can be debilitating: > http:mwallace.net/m-pages/mycat.htm (Forward slashes missing from above link...) LOL! Nevertheless, some people really take it very hard when they lose a pet. Witness all the tribute sites around the Web... Writing about it is a good way to help deal with it. Pete
From: Mark Wallace on 25 Nov 2006 05:08 Pete Dashwood wrote: > "Mark Wallace" <mwallace(a)dse.nl> wrote in message > news:ek7vru$it0$1(a)aioe.server.aioe.org... >> Alistair wrote: >>> Pete Dashwood wrote: >>>> "Alistair" <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote in message >>>> news:1164300905.555485.93190(a)h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... >>>>> docdwarf(a)panix.com wrote: >>>>>> In article <4sk3gpF10c8huU1(a)mid.individual.net>, >>>>>> Pete Dashwood <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> [snip] >>>>>> >>>>>>> Pete (who knows where his heart is...) >>>>>> You got a heart? During my Sergeanting-Daze there were those who >>>>>> swore >>>>>> that I had no such organ... just a thumpin' gizzard. >>>>>> >>>>>> DD >>>>> He probably keeps his heart in a jar under the stairs. >>>>> >>>> No, my brain is in a jar, in between the times I need to acquire a new >>>> body >>>> for it... :-) >>>> >>>> My heart was broken and discarded long ago... <sob> :-) >>>> >>> I too had my heart broken a long time ago. I also wrote a poem. >>> Unfortunately it was an epic load of shite and has long been discarded. >>> I have only tried twice since then to write poetry, in the form of >>> blues ditties. Sadly, I've managed to misplace them so you can thank >>> your God that you will not be subjected to poetry on a par of the Vogon >>> Captain (see Hitch-Hikers ...) >> I know exactly what you mean, and how the trauma of being deprived of >> something important to you can be debilitating: >> http:mwallace.net/m-pages/mycat.htm > > (Forward slashes missing from above link...) Oops. They must be around, somewhere; I'll probably find them as soon as I stop looking. Hey! I just clicked the link, so that I could go to a 404 page, fix it, and copy it out, but IE put the slashes in for me! When did that feature turn up, and why wasn't I told about it? > LOL! > > Nevertheless, some people really take it very hard when they lose a pet. > Witness all the tribute sites around the Web... > > Writing about it is a good way to help deal with it. .... But maybe not the way I did. I was sitting on a tram to Scheveningen (the seaside), when I came up with that one. Even I have doubts about the sanity of someone who can do such things with no direct inspiration whatsoever.
From: Alistair on 25 Nov 2006 07:27 Mark Wallace wrote: > Alistair wrote: > > Pete Dashwood wrote: > >> "Alistair" <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > >> news:1164300905.555485.93190(a)h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > >>> docdwarf(a)panix.com wrote: > > I know exactly what you mean, and how the trauma of being deprived of > something important to you can be debilitating: > http:mwallace.net/m-pages/mycat.htm You are showing definite symptoms of being a psychotic likely to move on to grannies and others.
From: Alistair on 25 Nov 2006 07:28
docdwarf(a)panix.com wrote: > In article <1164300905.555485.93190(a)h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, > Alistair <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > >docdwarf(a)panix.com wrote: > >> In article <4sk3gpF10c8huU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > >> Pete Dashwood <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: > >> > >> [snip] > >> > >> >Pete (who knows where his heart is...) > >> > >> You got a heart? During my Sergeanting-Daze there were those who swore > >> that I had no such organ... just a thumpin' gizzard. > > > >He probably keeps his heart in a jar under the stairs. > > A Classice Joke from the Oldene Dayse: 'So your (relative) is/has > performing/performed (accomplishment)... that's nothing! My (relative) is > at (prominent institution of higher education)... in a jar in a > display-case!' > > DD I suspect that my right eye is in a glass jar at St. Thomas' Hospital, London. |