[lit-ideas] Re: New Year's Resolutions

<<We can talk about my cat."

How nice for your cat.  And  for you, I suppose.  Notice that it is about
your cat that we are to  talk?>>
 
You could talk about my daughter's cats.....but you'll have to tell me if  
you prefer to discuss calicos (Cheyenne and Ciara), fat lazy toms (orange/white 
 
or grey striped, Frisky & Tiger, respectively), the gray kitten rescued  from 
the car accident across the street which crushed his paw entirely (Smokey),  
or one of the two the black cats (Midnight & Faye)....  (and yes,  "grey" and 
"gray" are two different colours)...
 
or our Sheltie who thinks she's a mountain goat... ("Lucy" -- don't ask)  
walking daintily across the back of the couch and leaping in the air w/, I  
swear, springs on all four feet....
 
or the "pet" [sic] mice...(can you sue a pet store for giving you the wrong  
info re. mice gender?).... (Camy is the Daddy' mouse's name; I can't recall 
what  the daughter calls the Mother mouse, oh yes!  "Despero", and I've been  
too afraid to ask if the baby mice are named.  Daughter gave 4 of the baby  
mice 
away to a couple of her friends -- whose parents likely are no longer  
speaking to me -- and absolutely had to spend a couple days at their houses 
over  
Vacation this week so the mice could have a family reunion)...
 
or the ferret I have somehow permitted my daughter to talk me into, proving  
that the last vestiges of my sanity are gone....
 
I never saw better reasons for ellipses.
 
Julie Krueger
facing the prospect of taking the daughters Malling tomorrow for the  
post-Christmas specials.  If I never post again, it's because I'm lying  
unconscious 
underneath a teen-clothes rack somewhere in the Midwest.  With  a ferret on 
top of me.
 

========Original  Message========     Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: New Year's 
Resolutions  Date: 12/30/05 9:46:14 PM Central Standard Time  From: 
_phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx)   To: 
_lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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'Andy' wrote:

"I was asking what it is  people like to talk about."

No.  You were asking what it takes to  have people talk to you.  The
conversation on this list goes on even  though many people don't bother
talking to you.  This may confuse you  but you can check the archives.


'Andy' shares with us:

"I love  my cat.  We can talk about my cat."

How nice for your cat.  And  for you, I suppose.  Notice that it is about
your cat that we are to  talk?

But then again I am talking about you and thereby reinforce the  habit.
For my part, it is enjoyable in a schadenfreude sort of fashion.   'Bad,
Phil, bad!'


Sincerely,

Phil Enns
Toronto,  ON



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