[lit-ideas] Re: Thursday Poem


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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