[lit-ideas] Re: Scot Free, was Andreas' Place
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:03:46 -0700
on 7/11/05 5:34 PM, David Ritchie at ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Supplemental notes:
I wrote: Only at the highest level of
> competition do the judges reveal such priceless information.
Note: Of course they reveal who won and so on, a matter of averaging the
judgments; what they don't reveal is the wide level of disagreement.
I wrote: In the Wednesday competition, called the North American
> championship but with entrants from to Australia,
Note: Sorry about the supplemental "to."
I wrote: On Saturday, the Portland Highland Games,
> where Robert is probably entered in the heavy events.
Note: This is only funny if you know that men in the heavy events--tossing
the caber and so on--are huge, and that the Vice-Purchasing Dean of Mutton
College is a heavyweight brain, but a slender fellow.
Do you suppose that "Scot," in the sense of running or paying a tab, came
from "Scotch," to mark a slate?
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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