[lit-ideas] Re: Which Doctor's Excuse?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 08:49:47 -0400
Boy, you have high standards. I planted petunias once when we first got
our house. It was a huge amount of work and I never planted anything
again, just whatever landscaping was put in. I beg to differ though.
Petunias are pretty. The flowers are delicate. They look nice in pots. I
like flowers on bushes that bloom on their own without work, like rhodos
and azaleas and lilacs. Puny little petunias don't compare to them. I
have it on good authority that Alexander the Great liked petunias. His
nickname for Cleopatra in fact was my Little Porker Petunia, Pork for
short. Where do you think Disney got it?
Kind of old news now,
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060909/D8K19D900.html it's been
confirmed by the Senate that there was no link between Saddam and al Qaeda.
Given how convinced you were of that link and of the need to invade Iraq,
does it ever give you pause that some of your opinions and positions might
be more emotional than factual?
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/9/2006 12:58:34 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Which Doctor's Excuse?
>
> >>I guess you don't like Gandhi. ... You like petunias?
>
>
> Petunias are a filthy boring flower, the purple, the red,
> the white petunias--all pedestrian trash blooms not worthy
> of a garbage can. Easily grown, easily spread like so many
> Wal-Marts or asphalt traffic islands, not worth the concern
> of serious gardeners, petunias are a blight. They are for
> the lazy, the half-assed, those who would plant such ragtag
> and bobtail trumpery of the earth are beneath contempt, and
> their efforts should end in ridicule. Petunias are subaltern
> refuse like Gandhi ... [loud gagging sound] ... and I will
> speak of them no more.
>
> Alexander the Great, on the other hand, he knew how to
> garden. He also knew how to die in a garden, namely
> Nebuchadnezzar's palace garden in Babylon. The comparison is
> odious and I will no longer allude to it.
>
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