> [Original Message] > From: david ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 12/1/2005 1:36:30 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Scrushy and the King of Arkansas > > > President W. J. Clinton is currently reading his autobiography to me > as I drive around. In the intimacy of the white SAAB, I feel > sometimes I might call him "Bill." He has high praise for the porter > at the Oxford college he attended, a fellow of the sort I never meet > hereabouts, a man prone to reminding all around him, like a Greek > chorus, of the dangers of hubris. Returning to the college after he > was first elected governor, and feeling proud of his achievements, > Clinton was greeted by the fellow, "Ah Clinton," the man said, "I > hear you've just been made king of some place with three men and a dog." > I like to think this loses something in the retelling. Three men and a dog. One is tempted to think Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld with a dog named Iraq and Bush being crowned, or beaned, as the case may be. Dash it all. We'll just have to wait for Bush's memoir to find out. Andy Amago > David Ritchie > Portland, Oregon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html