M&D Neophyte, any takers?

Sojourner sojourner at vt.edu
Wed Sep 10 07:56:19 CDT 1997


At 09:09 PM 9/9/97 -0600, Gerard O'Brien wrote:
>Hellow.
>Please put me on the list.
>I think I used a shortcut to subscribe, but not sure if it went.
>Here's my first observation for discussion...
>
>''Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs,''
>
>Sounds an awful lot like ''A screaming comes across the sky''
>
>And what's this? Isn't snowball one word?
>

Well well well!!! Let me be the first to roll out our Olde
Fashioned Gloucester Cheese Welcome Wagon for ya.

Welcome aboard Gerard... I'll let some of the crustier
members of the instant pudding club here introduce themselves,
but we shore do love TRP..

Snow-balls have flown their arcs is similar I must say,
but the only arc is the fading image on our retina, as
they have landed and rejoined the slushy mother from
which they came.  A screaming however, is happening NOW
and imprints us on our aural senses, our most primative
and animalistic instincts.

Snow-balls with a hyphen?  I love it!  It refers to the wicked
delight of a phallic man of show, armed with his well entrenched
cannon, large treads visible, balanced between his two
stalwart earthen-snowy mounds, sticking his indignity down
the throats of toadying Victorian passersby as they crouch
and cower under the impending doom of a rocket overhead...

or not.

*grin*




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