On Feb 19, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Robert Paul wrote: > Donal McEvoy wrote: > > >> >I've not had a hommage before. >> Quite tasty, they are..., >> rhyme with "rummage," I believe.> >> >> Like Romney's c.v., "hommage" raises suspicions of darkest francophilia (and >> perhaps related -philias too). > >> "Festschrift: The ultimate accolade. Everyone gets one." > > Not me. Quel dommage. > > RP > And here was I--skipping an inconvenient "chr"...who needs "chrs" anyway-- thinking that a festschrift was some kind of party nightie. http://www.wartimehousewife.com/2012/02/shift-work-or-the-revivial-of-the-chemise/ When I write "think," I am of course referring to the collective influence of parasites, http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2008/10/toxoplasma_the_brain_parasite_that_influences_human_culture.php David Ritchie, mourning for Arsenal in Portland, Oregon