[lit-ideas] Re: TUESDAY'S FORCAST

No problem.  Thanks for the clarification.  Now Mike can skip clarification.

Veronica


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andy 
  To: lit-ideas 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:18 AM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: TUESDAY'S FORCAST


        Sorry, Veronica, I was just playing.  Darwin says there is no design, 
just random changes that confer evolutionary advantage and add up and here we 
are, together with sulfur eating bacteria designed to take advantage of the 
volcanic activity on the ocean floor, among all of God's other creations.  
Grand design would impose some order on the randomness, an imposed order that 
Darwin would argue is not there.  Many others, even most others, obviously 
think there is a design.  But, maybe Mike needs to clarify his statement.  

        Andy

         

        --- On Wed, 7/29/09, veronica caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


          From: veronica caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
          Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: TUESDAY'S FORCAST
          To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
          Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 1:46 PM


          Mike:
          "God has his reasons, I know,
          I just wish that He would slow
          down his retribution against mankind
          for fucking up his grand design."

          Veronica

          "What grand design?"

          My comment was in reference to the above lines in Mike's poem.  
Nothing to do with car designs.  God's design is how I took it.  Clarification 
from Mike please.

          Veronica

            ----- Original Message ----- 
            From: Andy 
            To: lit-ideas 
            Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:37 PM
            Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: TUESDAY'S FORCAST


                  The Grand Design was made by Chevrolet.  It was replaced by 
the Mini Mouse subcompact, which runs on bird seed.  They're running a contest 
for a marketing jingle.  I was thinking, See the U.S.A. in your Mini Mouse 
subcompact.  Well, yeah, it is kind of small.  See Rhode Island in your Mini 
Mouse subcompact.  

                  Andy



                  --- On Tue, 7/28/09, veronica caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:


                    From: veronica caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
                    Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: TUESDAY'S FORCAST
                    To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
                    Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 8:56 PM


                    I like the poem.  It made me laugh.  I hope you get more 
heat so you can get more work.

                    What grand design?

                    Veronica
                      ----- Original Message ----- 
                      From: Mike Geary 
                      To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
                      Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:42 PM
                      Subject: [lit-ideas] TUESDAY'S FORCAST


                      WEATHERING THE WEATHER

                      It's uncomfortably cool in Memphis,
                      Life has almost stopped.
                      The sun's turned suddenly gentle
                      and service call have dropped, 
                      business is down
                      way down,
                      way, way down.
                      No AC's are breaking under strain.
                      Can you feel my pain?

                      Our bodies struggle to maintain
                      ninety-eight point six degrees
                      when it's only eighty-five outside.
                      God has his reasons, I know,
                      I just wish that He would slow
                      down his retribution against mankind
                      for fucking up his grand design.

                      Mike Geary
                      Memphis

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