It droppeth as a dreadful pun from heaven

Bill Millard millard at cuadmin.cis.columbia.edu
Fri Sep 12 11:44:41 CDT 1997


Chris perpetrated this:

> If we were to call him by any other name, the quality of Murthy
> would be strained.

So, um, it's like, twice blest here?  It blesseth her who puns 
and him who's penned?  'Tis sprightliest in the sprightliest; it 
becomes the posting librarian better than her pencil?  

A-and maybe we're supposed to hear that line in Daffy Duck's voice, 
in which case the quality of M. would be, well, thtrained....

Thufferin' thuccotash, I can't find that Oblig. TRP Content anywhere 
near this one.

-- Anything to postpone today's editing a while,
Bill




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