[lit-ideas] Re: Clutching at straws
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:24:46 +0900
My wife says that she has smocked. I.e., engaged in a craft that consists of
pleating and embroidering textiles.
John
Sent from my iPad
On 2011/09/28, at 2:15, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thomas Friedman's op-ed piece today is unusually grim, "This is code red," a
> "possible global financial contagion triggered by European banks choking..."
> I began to wonder whether contagion can be triggered, and how choking acts as
> a trigger, but then I was distracted by the news that an animal activist
> group has claimed responsibility for setting fire to a store that sold
> fur...and fireworks, the "Rocky Mountain Fireworks and Fur Company." It's in
> Boise, ID.
>
> This criminal act, if criminal act it was, would be beyond the jurisdiction
> of Oregon's newest judge, Janelle F. Wipper who, in her spare time, may or
> may not be a "smocker." Maryou McEachron Lord's obit today describes an
> "exceptional seamstress, knitter, smocker, weaver, bridge player and
> bookworm." Does anyone here know what a "smocker" is? Or whether obits will
> soon accommodate "exceptional Kindleworms"? Or where I can get a wheelbarrow
> for my soon-to-be worthless money?
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland,
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