[lit-ideas] Re: Inferring the Poodle Card
- From: "Veronica Caley" <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:48:34 -0400
David: "Sheltie or scampering thing of that ilk."
Sir: You insulted two of my children. I don't like it. Why don't you
write one of your great poems instead?
Veronica Caley
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From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 4:32 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Inferring the Poodle Card
On Oct 30, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
On 10/27/2010 10:21 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
I've sort of learned that when Brits play the 'poodle card', it's more
emotional than rational and it sounded like he was playing the poodle
card."
A reflection of ancient Franco-phobia. The bulldog card is placed face up
in times of crisis
Some dweeb at the beeb wrote that. "David Ritchie cut and pasted" is what
your post should say at the outset. But your point is well taken...,
Dunkirk spirit, bulldogs all the way around. Unless the crisis is a
desperate shortage of yaps, in which case they call in a West Highland
Terrier or a Sheltie or scampering thing of that ilk.
David Ritchie,
fond of real dogs in
Portland, Oregon
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