DR: >(p.s. show me a ritchie a/c charging manifold with 1 hose in like new >condition!!!! >and i'll show you a hoser in waiting >http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/tls/673214861.html) Yes, Ritchie is a big name in refrigeration tools. When I first started with Phil-Lit, I was hoping that David was a tool-connected Ritchie and that I might get a discount if I played my cards right. I complimented everything he wrote. But then he told me he wasn't related. What a waste of good sycophancy. Anyway, let me advise David not to buy those gauges with one hose -- you need three -- but more importantly that's all so yesterday, so analog. Now it's all digital. You should be dreaming in digital. check it out: http://digi-cool.com/product_information/ if you truly want to be hip. Mike Geary Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: John McCreery To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 6:51 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem David, Can you do one now about the stones that pop up under your spade or trowel three-quarters of the way toward the end of the row you are planting? So if you skip it, the row goes all scraggly. And, if you don't, it turns out to be so big that when, at last, you pull it out, you need a tree to fill the hole. John On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:14 AM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: i know what my hatred of garden hoses could be understood to mean in freudian terms but i don't think that's quite it i hate garden hoses because when you are planting with a full head of steam up which is to say at twice the speed of sound sweat runs in rivulets down your brow and by the time the final task which is to add water soaking the translated roots by the time this hour comes around you are tired and it is exactly then that hoses will choose to python themselves around some jutting rock pretending to constrict it or they will flop over suddenly like a fish struggling to get free and kink or they will blow a washer at the business end and so deliver exactly the wrong force of water hoses are the tricksters of the garden belittling those who work with shovels calling them gandy dancers refusing by reference to the union to tap the damn well (p.s. show me a ritchie a/c charging manifold with 1 hose in like new condition!!!! and i'll show you a hoser in waiting http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/tls/673214861.html) 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 -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 http://www.wordworks.jp/