[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer
- From: "Veronica Caley" <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 19:54:13 -0400
Grant--married Mr. Dent's daughter (whose middle name was Boggs).
I wonder if she is an ancestor of Hale Boggs, Cokie Roberts' father. Her
mother was Lindy Boggs, ambassador to the Vatican a long time ago.
Veronica Caley
Milford, MI
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From: David Ritchie
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Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 2:17 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Sunday Twofer
mine's a pint
gawan ask me what i did
mudded and plastered the 'ole bloomin' void
din i
blood
flood
mud
fish
splash it on all ovah
meanwhile where's the boss
naffed off
dun like the void
too mucky for a mucky muck
wants to improve it wiv art
'ere we are sweatin' buckets
cre-hatin'
an' he's off inventin' the bloody noh play
give a mason any day
Four facts to consider when you get that Disneyland song, "It's a small
world" stuck in your head:
when you look him up on the web, President Grant measured five foot eight,
and weighed one hundred and fifty pounds, but in Mark Perry's book "Grant and
Twain," on entry into West Point the young man shrinks to one hundred and
seventeen pounds--not a problem, older men get fat-- but a height of five foot
one.
Two, Grant's real first name was Hiram. The senator who recommended him to
West Point shortened the name, and then added an S.
Three it was Lincoln--tall guy--who recommended Pickett--whose wife said he
was "of medium height"-- to West Point.
Four it was Longstreet, six foot two and nearly twice as heavy as Perry's
young Grant, who stood as best man when the tanner's son--Grant--married Mr.
Dent's daughter (whose middle name was Boggs).
Lagniappe--Grant and his wife are not actually buried, and she lies beside
him in the mausoleum, (making a total population in the tomb of two) so the
answer to Groucho's famous question has a bit of a twist to it, but finally of
at least one thing we may be certain--the damn song's gone, right?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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