[lit-ideas] Re: Shrimp
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 05:22:58 EDT
<<>> Well I'll be horn-swaggled.
>
> Horn-swOggled, I think. All of these matters would have been child's
> play for JL. I hope he is well, wherever he is.>>
I wouldn't know, as I only ever heard my Mother speak the saying .... I've
always wondered where she got it and what it meant or where it came from
....where is JL, indeed? What is horn-swoggling? Why is it a "nicety" for
"damned"?
<< Apparently the Himalayas have become an abundant source of shrimp,
so abundant that our local food purveyor is able to report as follows in his
mailer the, "Fearless Flyer." "Colossal Butterflied Shrimp, Marinated in
Garlic and Herbs...The shrimp are harvested in natural pools formed by the
crystal clear waters in the Himalayas and the Tibetan High Plateau." There's
nothing for it, I think, but to mount a National Geographic
expedition, with gun and camera, into the hinterland of the Himalayas, in
search of the true source of garlic shrimp. >>
This is quite possibly the funniest series of sentences I have read on line
-- and that includes a decade of experience. Himalayan Shrimp. I love it.
I've always wanted an aquarium with live shrimp -- have you seen them?
Incredibly delicate other-worldly creatures.
I'm re-doing our house and when I get to our dining room I think there will
be a place for a salt-water aquarium.
We had aquariums a few years ago, but the pet store did not adequately warn
me of which fish were predatorial.
I think we'll try it again in a more informed fashion.
<<For publicity purposes llamas
or even lamas may be involved. I'll begin recruiting expedition members
tomorrow. All those with experience of mountain crustacean hunting should
line up outside my door de bonne heure.>>
I'll try to get my neighbor's phone # -- he has llamas he'd probably be
willing to loan out...(along with the emus)....
Surrealism Reigns
Julie Krueger
always up for mountain crustacean hunting...
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on 5/12/05 6:46 PM, Robert Paul at robert.paul@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Well I'll be horn-swaggled.
>
> Horn-swOggled, I think. All of these matters would have been child's
> play for JL. I hope he is well, wherever he is.
Someone tells me that he is somewhere in the U.S., cutting up rough paper
and selling it for scrap. Meanwhile, there is a pressing thing to call to
your attention, the appearance of Himalayan shrimp. We read all the time
about species becoming extinct but not often about the other end of the
thing. Apparently the Himalayas have become an abundant source of shrimp,
so abundant that our local food purveyor is able to report as follows in his
mailer the, "Fearless Flyer." "Colossal Butterflied Shrimp, Marinated in
Garlic and Herbs...The shrimp are harvested in natural pools formed by the
crystal clear waters in the Himalayas and the Tibetan High Plateau."
There's nothing for it, I think, but to mount a National Geographic
expedition, with gun and camera, into the hinterland of the Himalayas, in
search of the true source of garlic shrimp. For publicity purposes llamas
or even lamas may be involved. I'll begin recruiting expedition members
tomorrow. All those with experience of mountain crustacean hunting should
line up outside my door de bonne heure.
David Ritchie
Jacques Cousteau Mountaineering Studies
University of the Specific
Portland, Oregon
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