[lit-ideas] Re: The Cat At Whom He Has Hissed
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 18:08:57 -0230
Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> DR:
> "Seventy dollars to come and sixty dollars for an "hour's" labor,
> which actually lasted fifteen minutes."
>
>
> A $70 service charge! Where the hell was he coming from? Memphis? Wow,
> no wonder I'm struggling.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
Look at the bright side: you don't have a Swedish maid.
I could start on about vet bills for cats with urinary tract problems, and the
cost of the special catfood required, but I've just returned from 3 hours of
ushering at convocation and I need some down-time. Amazing: these graduands
have BAs and MAs and yet they act like moose caught in headlights when
convocating. I even ran out of bobbie pins.
Another prosperous line of work these days besides plumbing and automotive
repair is hairstyling ... esp. around convocation time. I barely recognized
many of my past students, what with the curls and all ... and those are just
the guys!
All ausge-hugged and -kissed (even by those students who hated my course at the
time. What does it all mean???)
Walter O
MUN
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:51 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Cat At Whom He Has Hissed
>
>
> > "The Countdown Has Begun!" is how the Evergreen Air and Space museum, of
> > which I am a member, warns me to expect an appearance by "Titan II expert
>
> > Chuck Rash." Isn't Chuck Rash an excellent name for an astronauty sort
> > of person? Straight out of a dime novel: like Buck Rush, Dirk Rich or
> > Cat Vim; quite unlike Bartelby Merely-Comfortable and nobs of that ilk.
> > Chuck Rash, or as he is known to intimates, Charles "Horse" Rash, is an
> > ideal name for such a Titan feller.
> >
> > If you're from Riddle, Oregon however, it's better to be a Cloid. I
> > haven't run into many Cloids in my life. The newspaper says Rita
> > Ferschweiler met this one somewhere, and married him in Gervais in 1945.
> > As Mr. and Mrs. Wigle, they then moved to Riddle, where they had five
> > children, two of whom were Richard and Rod.
> >
> > How am I currently occupying myself? Still cleaning up and sorting
> > through postponed piles of paper. I took four boxes of books to Powells;
>
> > they bought ten vols, awarding me a massive twenty eight dollar credit,
> > rejected the rest. I'm considering what to do next. The library
> > bookstore may be headed for a windfall.
> >
> > Two of our family are currently at the vet with Gilbert, one of our two
> > elderly cats. Having lived a full and healthy barn-cat existence,
> > Gilbert started being friendly a couple of months ago and now is not
> > eating. These are bad signs in a barn-cat. Worse, he now even snuggles
> > up to Sullivan, the cat at whom he has hissed for nearly all his
> > existence.
> >
> > Daughter just called to say that the cat has a fever and a full bladder
> > and they're going to run tests. Old guy stuff, is my diagnosis, with
> > bills to come. Yesterday, when I was leaving for a meeting, our door
> > lock suddenly stuck. I disassembled the thing to the best of my
> > knowledge, risking arriving late to the meeting, but eventually there was
>
> > nothing for it but to call the lock person. Seventy dollars to come and
> > sixty dollars for an "hour's" labor, which actually lasted fifteen
> > minutes.
> >
> > We academics are in the wrong line of business. We should be
> > disassembling locks and fixing the bladders of elderly cats. Instead
> > where are we? Standing in the rain watering nay-chah, metaphorically
> > that is. See Bev Hogue's blog for details: http://
> > excelsiorbev.blogspot.com/
> >
> > Tomorrow I chair the St. Andrew's Society meeting, my first as President.
>
> > Note the capital "p." I have thought about calling my crabbing boat the
> > "Quite Vincible." These two facts are not related.
> >
> > Carry on.
> >
> > David Ritchie,
> > Portland, Oregon
> >
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