[lit-ideas] Re: The Cat At Whom He Has Hissed

Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> DR:
> "Seventy dollars to come and sixty dollars for an "hour's" labor,
> which actually lasted fifteen minutes."
> 
> 
> A $70 service charge!  Where the hell was he coming from?  Memphis?    Wow, 
> no wonder I'm struggling.
> 
> Mike Geary
> Memphis


Look at the bright side: you don't have a Swedish maid. 

I could start on about vet bills for cats with urinary tract problems, and the
cost of the special catfood required, but I've just returned from 3 hours of
ushering at convocation and I need some down-time. Amazing: these graduands
have BAs and MAs and yet they act like moose caught in headlights when
convocating. I even ran out of bobbie pins. 

Another prosperous line of work these days besides plumbing and automotive
repair is hairstyling ... esp. around convocation time. I barely recognized
many of my past students, what with the curls and all ... and those are just
the guys!

All ausge-hugged and -kissed (even by those students who hated my course at the
time. What does it all mean???)

Walter O
MUN





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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:51 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Cat At Whom He Has Hissed
> 
> 
> > "The Countdown Has Begun!" is how the Evergreen Air and Space museum,  of 
> > which I am a member, warns me to expect an appearance by "Titan II  expert
> 
> > Chuck Rash."  Isn't Chuck Rash an excellent name for an  astronauty sort 
> > of person?  Straight out of a dime novel: like Buck  Rush, Dirk Rich or 
> > Cat Vim; quite unlike Bartelby Merely-Comfortable  and nobs of that ilk. 
> > Chuck Rash, or as he is known to intimates,  Charles "Horse" Rash, is an 
> > ideal name for such a Titan feller.
> >
> > If you're from Riddle, Oregon however, it's better to be a Cloid.  I 
> > haven't run into many Cloids in my life.  The newspaper says Rita 
> > Ferschweiler met this one somewhere, and married him in Gervais in  1945. 
> > As Mr. and Mrs. Wigle, they then moved to Riddle, where they  had five 
> > children, two of whom were Richard and Rod.
> >
> > How am I currently occupying myself?  Still cleaning up and sorting 
> > through postponed piles of paper.  I took four boxes of books to  Powells;
> 
> > they bought ten vols, awarding me a massive twenty eight  dollar credit, 
> > rejected the rest.  I'm considering what to do next.   The library 
> > bookstore may be headed for a windfall.
> >
> > Two of our family are currently at the vet with Gilbert, one of our  two 
> > elderly cats.  Having lived a full and healthy barn-cat  existence, 
> > Gilbert started being friendly a couple of months ago and  now is not 
> > eating.  These are bad signs in a barn-cat.  Worse, he now  even snuggles 
> > up to Sullivan, the cat at whom he has hissed for  nearly all his 
> > existence.
> >
> > Daughter just called to say that the cat has a fever and a full  bladder 
> > and they're going to run tests.  Old guy stuff, is my  diagnosis, with 
> > bills to come.  Yesterday, when I was leaving for a  meeting, our door 
> > lock suddenly stuck.  I disassembled the thing to  the best of my 
> > knowledge, risking arriving late to the meeting, but  eventually there was
> 
> > nothing for it but to call the lock person.   Seventy dollars to come and 
> > sixty dollars for an "hour's" labor,  which actually lasted fifteen 
> > minutes.
> >
> > We academics are in the wrong line of business.  We should be 
> > disassembling locks and fixing the bladders of elderly cats.  Instead 
> > where are we?  Standing in the rain watering nay-chah, metaphorically 
> > that is.  See Bev Hogue's blog for details: http:// 
> > excelsiorbev.blogspot.com/
> >
> > Tomorrow I chair the St. Andrew's Society meeting, my first as  President.
> 
> > Note the capital "p."  I have thought about calling my  crabbing boat the 
> > "Quite Vincible."  These two facts are not related.
> >
> > Carry on.
> >
> > David Ritchie,
> > Portland, Oregon
> >
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