Re: "Yer Ugly Mug," etc

----- Original Message -----
From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@...>


> Sally:
> > I'm very late to this thread, so I think John has already had a great
> > chuckle at our expense.  But the way he has his picture set up, we are
made
> > to think (those who haven't met him) that the bespectacled gentleman
with
> > the dread-locks is John Cowan.  Actually, the man seated next to him is
> > John, as he points out in his profile, but you have to arrow the image
over
> > to it!
>
> I think that is more a consequence of this picture being about the only
> one of John in existence,
Oh, I suppose... I was expecting John's usual demurral, something about how
I assign more deviousness to him than he deserves, etc. etc. etc.   Demural.
Demurral.  How do you spell that word?

On another listserv, we are being bombarded with student bloopers.  I think
the one I like best is excreta, excreta, excreta, for etcetera, etcetera,
etcetera.  In a 15th cent. Irish manuscript, I've found et reliqua, for et
cetera, which I've used for Teonaht.   Mimo:m melavrod vyrm ilika-jo
bettaif, et rellikwa.  "Get some green and yellow vegetables, etc."

> rather than a deliberate ploy to make you
> think xod (the chap on the left) is John. xod, btw, is black *and*
> white, by his own description -- a condition I myself aspire to, though
> so far without success. (Though I was recently thrilled when Gale,
> John's spouse, discerned in my visage a likeness to Eldridge Cleaver,
> about which many decades of boasting lie ahead for me.)
LOL!
I still think the picture I saw of you was a terrific copy of the mental one
I had.  Have you put it up on YUM?  I'll check.  Nope!

> > It's David Bell that I always imagined looking like Morgan Freeman, but
> > that's because I knew he was African-American.  But then, Morgan Freeman
> > looks like Morgan Freeman.  How can anybody else?  :)
>
> David Bell does look like Morgan Freeman.
Boy, I have uncanny powers.


Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."

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