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Re: clive liked it
I like Fred, and this is why.
Alfred B Johnson wrote:
> <SANZENBACHER at novell_chem.utk.edu> writes:
> > Sometimes it is like Fred is walking history lesson...(I have never
> > seen him but I assume he walks)
>
> Walking is a transportational convention first created by the early
> Basque peoples living in what we now call Europe during the way back BCs.
> Unfortunately, while the Basques were mastering walking, the Germanic
> tribes were migrating towards them. The Germanics had not yet worked out
> walking, but they were quite good at running, spitting, slashing and
> clubbing. Of course, they took over the continent. Now only a few
> Basque people remain, in Northern Spain.
>
> Due to overcrowding, a few of those Germanic peoples, known as the
> Gothics, migrated backwards from Scandinavia and into the east. In the
> east, they discovered the color black and a special combination of minor
> keys and beats and ethereal woosh. One of the major innovators among
> this musical people was one Raethbaert Smaethe. It is said that one of
> his descendents returned the Gothic culture to the West, and then to
> England, but I can't be sure of the details.
>
> At the height of the Roman Empire, the Celtic peoples of England were
> bullied into submission. When the Romans split in 410, because they had
> to defend against more of these Germanic folks, the postcolonial Celts
> were left to fend for themselves. After several hundred years of being
> occupied and protected by the Romans, the Celts were in no shape to do
> stick up for themselves. The vikings, etc, seeing that Rome had split,
> proceeded to take over the Celtic lands. Some of them (the Celts)
> stayed, some fled to the continent, some to what is now known as Ireland.
> The invaders were led by one Laenvord Dut Veelaer, whose name in moderen
> English is something like "Shaggy Headed Groove Daddy." Those who fled
> to Ireland were quite depressed, but they were a spiritual people and one
> of them had a great vision. In it he was given a magical formula which
> would serve to create a dark, dark beverage, later commodified as
> "Guinness." The subsequent creation and consumption of this beverage so
> raised the people's spirits that they were able to create a vibrant new
> culture in Ireland.
>
> Anyway, the point is, by this time, cultures had mixed, and for the rest
> of history, most all peoples could walk, run, spit, club, drink beer, and
> dance, though some dance better than others.
>
> The truth is out there, but not here,
>
> Fred
>
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