Mittelwerk

[ckaratnytsky]

     Quoth Henry:
     
     >One lister, more than any other, has payed attention to MW's 
     >identity. 
     
     >Could it be that Lois Lane is Superman?
     
     Nice try, dah-ling.  (If it is indeed *moi* whom you nominate for doing 
     double-duty as that rusty old tease, Mittelwerk.)
     
     No, alas, young Chris, the pugnacious Joan of Arc of the NYPL (hmm, 
     which, I wonder--NY Public or NY P-list?), is too busy stomping around 
     Nueva York like Godzilla to get tangled up playing yo-yo with you-all.
     
     Besides--and speaking of tangled up--she's got Mittelwerk in the closet 
     at home, macraméd in clothesline, listening to audiotapes of George 
     Washington's School Exercises: Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in 
     Company and Conversation, read by Jonathan Winters.  Neat-o!  Poor 
     Mitty's head started lolling and a bit of drool began to collect in a 
     puddle on his BVD's when I played #45 once too many times, but he's 
     muuuch better now, thank you.
     
     Oh, yes, #45 is:  "Being to advise or reprehend any one, consider 
     whether it ought to be in publick or in Private; presently, or at Some 
     other time, in what terms to do it & in reproving Shew no Sign of 
     Choler but do it with all Sweetness and Mildness."
     
     Easy as pie!  Right, babe?
     
     Chris