How to Be a Kool Host

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 14:00:56 CST 2006


...But where exactly is this fabled Mexican Irish Pub?

On 11/28/06, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Me Terrnce's
> RE: How to Be a Kool Host [Original Edited]
> On 11/28/06, terrance terrance <terrorence at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> [Really Bad Stuff:]
> > Never appeal indignantly to your other writings as proof that you are
> capable of better, clearer, um...things.
> >
> [Ugh:]
> > Never point to the strong moral purpose of a particular passage.
> >
> > Never mention the arithmetical principles incautiously inculcated in the
> minds of mathematically challenged readers.
> >
> [Doublley Bad (Unless Well Done):]
> > Never refer to the noble teachings of Saint Thomas of Pynchon.
> >
> [Totally Verbotten (but Rilly Cool:]
> > Never follow the prosaic course of simply explaining how or why anything
> in the tale happened.
> >
> [And Feel Free to Riff On:]
> > Remember, a host is a guest of the hostess of the very most most
> Most-Esques, who are hosting, this toasted cheese, if you please, on their
> very own server (located in a basement room under a small house on Duck Key
> Fla., USA)
> >
> [Esque-eeks!]
> >
> > THEY are almost morbidly sensitive about their Bands, their unlawfully
> wedded Ezekiel quoting partners, the Widths of the Wits and the length of
> their Bends.
> >
> [ Oooo... I'm all a twitter]
> >
> [Minus Return Spaces Below (let it flow):]
> > THEY used to have their diskscripts unzipped once or twice a week to be
> reformatted.    But THEY got phat and more than once it happened that when
> the time came for unzipping it, it was unzip it tee do dad a dad dum de dum
> dum.   When  replacing it, or trying to, it so happened that no one on board
> this fabulous orgy could remember which end of the drive it belonged to.
> So, everything you post here could end up in a book authored by a guy who
> shared his weed and his old lady with the author under discussion when they
> were in an Irish  bar in Mexico City.  Also, it is never of the slightest
> use to appeal to the THEM about anything—for THEY only refer to the Keep it
> cool code, and read out in pathetic tones, Stencilized Instructions which
> THEY have never themselves been able to understand.
> >
> > I'm a host the P-list
> > I'm a cookin up grill for their G-rist
> > I'm a milling up my mist for their B-list
> > I'm killing myself for the Wee wee wee ist
> > Wee little
> > Wee little
> > We list.
> >
> > All of us is Boyz.
> >
> > We Reel Kool
> > We don't Fool
> > We got Tool
> > We Cut Jewel
> > We Junk Mule
> > We Ball Loon.
> > We Fly Soon.
>
>
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