if I had a gun
Paul Mackin
mackin at allware.com
Sun Jul 27 16:16:27 CDT 1997
The way I reconstruct it, using secondary sources: Andrew's hauteur
caused an overreation on the part of Harrison which together with
Charles' inprecision of language didn't get sufficient rise out of Joe
much to the chagrin of Vaska in light of Joe's termity to
state that Meg hadn't seemed to be intimidated by . . . oh, I forget
who the original intimidator was, oh, yes, having a moderator.
By the way, I forgot to compliment Andrew D. on the splendidly
apropos addition to my list of Latin sayings. Don't remember
the exact Latin, but the sense was who will moderate the moderator.
Or more likely, guard the guards.
P
P.
Paul Murphy wrote:
>
> Vaska writes:
>
> >So where have you been, Joe, to address Harrison's message, for instance?
> [snip]
> >Or where do you stand now regarding this lovely bit of nonsense Charles has
> >engineered?
> [snip]
> >And no one as much as blinks an eye.
>
> The last man stares into the void and blinks...
> I won't speak for Joe, but I'll speak for myself: I was quite simply
> flabbergasted by the message from Harrison and by C.F.Albert's messages.
> The former seemed to be absurd overreaction to Dinnian hauteur and the
> latter just incoherent. Mind you, I only just skimmed them all, with the
> mellifluously poetic first line of gunslinger Cobain's "Breed" coursing
> through my head:
> "I don't care I don't care I don't care I don't care I don't care"
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
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