[lit-ideas] Re: The Pudding Club

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:49:09 -0700

Or me in with the treacle tart.

David

On Sep 17, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Ursula Stange wrote:

Just don't put me in the spotted dick room.
Ursula

David Ritchie wrote:

A pudding theme room? "I'd like a night in the treacle pudding room, please, or if you haven't got that one, how about semolina? I always sleep better when surrounded by mementoes of semolina."

Which flight of whimsy made me discover that Harvard's hasty pudding club was founded by a fellow named Nymphus Hatch. You don't see that name around much nowadays. Pity he wasn't one of the five members who went on to become U.S. president.

David Ritchie
up betimes in
Portland, Oregon
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