[lit-ideas] Re: Two (unrelated) bits

(in a scottish accent)

history
they don't make it here any more son
that's long gone
like the jobs
off-shored
all we've got now are visitors
graffiti scenery and midges
the museum'll open at ten
they do quite a nice cup of tea
wi' yon finger biscuits




(since you asked)

you ask whether i now write "flavor" without a "u"
you won't have noticed because you don't follow this kind of thing but what's been happening recently is the british have been making worse and worse beer while locally it's been getting better and better now and then i pay the extra for a bottle of something the importers say did well in a u.k. competition and i'll give you that the journey across the drink probably didn't do the actual drink a lot of good but almost always nowadays i go what on earth are they thinking rather than as i used to five or so years ago the americans have made a good start but experience tells how on earth did the british come to waste all that expertise i'll bet consultants came in and said you know you could make this shite a lot cheaper if you laid off everyone who knows what he or she is doing which is the very tendency i used to associate with business over here so it's a bit of a paradox but just for once the hidden hand seems to have tipped the invisible balance in favor of the flavor of local worts and their consequences so drink up and i'll get you another pint they serve the full imperial measure here absolutely there's a lot to savor in oregon 


David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon

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