V-2nd, C 5 "The Alligator was Pinto"

[alice wellintown]

Pinto, to a Porto Rican circa 1960 means dick, as in moby. Also pied.

One of the most beautiful poems in the language is GMH's "Pied Beauty"

But P's coco dee yo is not sublime or mysterious or anything Rikean.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).

Pied Beauty


GLORY be to God for dappled things—
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
    For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
  Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;         5
    And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:         10
                  Praise him.



On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Josepth Tracy wrote:
> "The alligator was Pinto"
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> I once had a job where a perk was membership in a workout club. While there I
> met a man who was un-mixed race. Black and white parents , but he was pinto, all
> over. Could such a one be president? What do you call such. He was handsome and
> had a remarkable sense of humor.
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> wow, what a question. A: No...
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> Misc. In As You Like It, the deer in the Arden forest are described as "poor
> dappled fools"....
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