Re: as to reading before posting

[cemery at columbus_rr.com (Chris Emery)]

"Joshua M. Neds-Fox" <jnedsfox at moody_edu> sez:
>Cross Country Moron Safari.  This is how colloquialisms get started.  This
>is a beautiful piece of American Slang invention.  Kyle should get a
>mention in the slang history books.  An honorable mention.

Of course, it'll be next week before Kyle gets around to reading this.
Kyle's good at phrases like that.

>>>I can just hear the conversation tonite at the Emery/Howe/whatever the

>This bit of conversational invention is also genius, so my second props go
>out to Mark.

What amazed me was how close to the mark it was.  Scary, that.

>> we're always quite civil as we discuss esoterica, such as
>> how to use a sheep's bladder to prevent an earthquake.
>
>I think I saw this movie.  'The Edge' -- Tony Hopkins actually uses a
>sheeps bladder to prevent an earthquake, remagnetize a compass, graft a
>limb onto a tree and cook food.  And also as a hat.

Of course, it might just be a token Monty Python reference.

>Of course, David Mamet ripped this particular script point off an episode
>of Macgyver from 10 years back.

I miss Macgyver.

>> Now leave me alone.  I'm trying to finish up this 350+ line post answering
>> Hubert's King Crimson question.
>
>Chris Emery.  If there were no prog rock, he might actually do work.

I trimmed it down to a mere 96 lines.  To paraphrase They Might Be Giants, I'm
my own worst editor.
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