[lit-ideas] Re: Thursday Poem
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:43:31 -0700
On Oct 25, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
You're not one of those Scots poets who scribbles as Burns roams,
are you?
And who, in youth, responded thus:
Examiner: Boy, give me a synonym for "inheritance."
Boy: "Patrimony," sir...if it comes from the fither's side...and
"matrimony" if it comes frae yer mither.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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