DR:
The horror. Spam. Did you know that Spam is still a significant part of the Hawaiian diet? By choice!
I'm embarrassed to admit that I like Spam. Lightly fried in a skillet with a little butter, a touch of Tabasco, eat it on toast with a daub of ketchup and honey mustard -- oh, my! Of course, I always make sure no one who knows me sees me buying it.
I regret having to report some bad news on the Iraq war front. My son Adam is moving back to Memphis from San Francisco and will be staying with me until he gets his own place -- hopefully within the next five years. How does the war in Iraq figure into this? you ask. Well, I'll tell you. The money I planned on using to finally put an end this damnable war this coming Saturday (March on the Pentagon) has suddenly and unexpectedly been reallocated to a more urgent social need -- The Memphis Movement. Sorry, folks, it looks like 2 more years at least of IED deaths. Alas and alack! And ach! Very, very ach!
Wait a minute! What am I doing? Damn the kid, full speed ahead! Greater voices are calling me! Let the Revolution begin!!!
Arrrrgggghhhh [expressed as a very long, very audible, very sad sigh], no, no, that will never do. Ach, alack, alas, no. No, no, no. Home is where they have to take you in. So it is written. And so it will be.
: ) actually I'm looking forward to it. But couldn't he have waited just one more month? I could have stopped this damn war. I know I could have. But then I'd have had no money to help him, isn't that so? What's more important, I ask you. What would Kant do? Or Camus? What would Jesus do had His son Judah ask for help in moving back to Nazareth from Jerusalem? Or Judith had Holophernes said let's skip the Barley Harvest and go to Haifa for a week? Choice: the stuff of decisions. : )
Mike Geary Memphis----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:27 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: I shall say this only once (allo allo)
On Mar 9, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Judith Evans wrote:Goodness David And if youfind yourself sat next to an odd fellow in an ARP helmet and akilt, I'm reminded of Dad's Army! (Also for some reason of food rationing and so on.) d'you think the Allo Allo audience will be served spam sandwiches and tea in tin mugs?Maybe if we got hold of some RAF uniforms we'd be allowed chocolate. I recall being very impressed as a kid that there was a job in which people issue you chocolate as part of your rations. Somehow the fact that you had to take all the risks of a bombing mission didn't manage to put me off the notion of FREE chocolate. I guess if ever there was a time when I was ripe for war, it was about age ten.David Ritchie Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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