[lit-ideas] Re: Lovely War
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:07:58 +0900
This, on top of the two amazing Sunday poems, Mike, you have made my day.
John
On Jan 14, 2008 5:48 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> JL:
> >>Geary still needs to reply to the 326 posts by yours truly that mention
> his Irish name -- and he will!<<
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> >>Mind. It can be ONE response, but I'd rather you do mention each of my
> post with an asterisk, or at least the ones you understood.<<
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> *Ah, there's the rub. JL thinks I understand him. He forgets I'm a
> refrigeration repairman. As Virgil Dewey said in his opinion piece in the
> Onion:
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> "Now, I don't claim to understand how them fast-talking city folk
> work—though I hear tell now that they got these computers and hard disks
> inside the refrigerators and they just punch codes into 'em and the
> refrigerators fix themselves and next thing you know they start
> expectoratin' whole cubes of ice out at you. But we got a saying round here:
> "If the fan ain't running, discharge the capacitor to prevent electrical
> shock, unplug the unit, pry open the service panel, set your volt-ohm meter
> to the RX1 scale, clip a VOM probe to each fan motor terminal, and make sure
> the meter reads from 50 to 200 ohms." I know it sounds simple, but they're
> words to live by, and I s'pose there's a shred of wisdom yet in that old saw
> if you just stop to hear it."
> http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/im_just_a_simple_country
> That is to say, I understand my stuff as you do yours. OK? Now that
> that's settled, let's get on to what I do understand in your posts. I
> understand that you have a fine tuned sense of humour (please note
> the Anglican (heretical) "u" inserted in your honour -- and yet again!).
> Now then, humor is one thing, accuracy another. Just how acrid are you?
> Not very. Why not? Accuracy is a virtue according to WalterO and Plato.
> Get more caustic, I say. Thomas Aquinas says: "Matrimony rhymes
> with Acrimony -- a coincidence? I don't think so." Surely you wouldn't try
> to contradict Aquinas. You have impregnated your audience with your
> implicatures, time now to marry them. No more sweet words. Tell these
> folks exactly how you feel. Use phrases like "asshole motherfucker" -- you
> must learn to speak the local lingo. Your humor is too refined, too clever,
> too funny. Where are the mud pies, I want to know.
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> Regarding the Achaeans, the Spartans, the Peloponnesians, the Thracians,
> the Thessalonians, the Lesbians, the Salamis and the Baloneys, all I can say
> is "so what else is new?" You and Lawrence are Loebites and that's as it
> should be. Me? I'm American all the way. Something Helm wouldn't
> understand, but God does.
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> There are obviously many topics you've raised on which you should be taken
> you to task, but it's late and I have several jobs to do tomorrow -- another
> way of saying that I can't just lollygag around Loebian pools or spend all
> day cleaning my guns like some people can. There's a world out there that
> must be kept working. Yay, me!
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> OK, then. God bless and etc. Keep the faith, as they say -- your
> heretical faith, that is, for which you will end up burning in hell --
> thanks you, Henry VIII -- another one of your beloved Brits. And keep those
> posts coming. Damn the Andreas, full posting ahead.
>
> Mike Geary
> in Memphis
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John McCreery
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Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/
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