[Sca-cooks] Wyoming....WAS Re Holiday Potlucks
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Sat Dec 11 10:53:20 PST 2004
Also sprach Martin G. Diehl:
>They don't do that here. OTOH, with each change of season,
>I see drivers receiving instant refresher courses.
>
>But that's just my POV here in the mountains of Northern NJ.
>(artistic license -- actually just hills)
That's not artistic license. That's a local dialect.
Adamantius, for whom mountains are mountains and hills are too often
a street that isn't level, but who has a certain bee in the bonnet
about the pre-development landscape
--
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If they have no bread, you have to say, let them eat
brioche."
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, "Confessions", pub 1782
"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry
Holt, 07/29/04
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