[lit-ideas] Re: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 16:06:57 -0230
I get it Skipper! Rodney Dangerfield is alive and well.
Anyone going to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in
Fredericton? (That's in New Brunswick, btw. A province in the Atlantic region
of Canada. Look on the map ... keep going eastwards ...)
Cheers, Walter
Quoting Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I've never had any complaints against this List (excepting, of course, those
> complaints I've already voiced), but now I do have to complain. I feel that
> no one here respects my philosophical perspectives. No one races to
> challenge my propositions. Why not? Are they unassailable? Or is it that
> I can't quote chaper and verse? Yes, it's true, I'm no scholar of the
> ancients or the middlemen or the current crack pots, but I am a human
> being!!! I deserved to be heard.
>
> How so? you say.
>
> How so? God so. My beloved grandfather John Sebastian Geary came from a
> family of Irish draymen in Blairsville, PA. (well, yes, before that they
> came from Ireland and before that they came from Africa and before that from
> amoeba). My beloved grandfather wearied of hauling other peoples "stuff"
> (as George Carlin would say) and so took up plastering. Just then the
> hurricane of 1906 struck Galveston, TX, killing over six thousand people and
> destroying lots and lots and lots of houses. Being an astute
> businessplasterer, my beloved grandfather John Sebastian Geary hie-di-hoed
> himself to Galveston and started plastering. There he met my grandmother.
> They did the deed from whence is my history. My father Emory Joseph Geary
> swore that God killed all those poeple just to insure that he would be
> brought into the world. We respected him for that. But later on in life I
> wondered if he wasn't mistaken. My father wasn't the goal, I was. God
> killed off six thousand for me. Thank you, God. Praise Baby Jesus. I
> think it's time you folk started showing me more respect.
>
> Mike Geary
> God's Special One
> in Memphis
>
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