[Sca-cooks] Lemons in Middle English
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Mon Feb 7 20:50:01 PST 2005
Also sprach Laura C. Minnick:
>At 06:17 PM 2/7/2005, you wrote:
>
>>>Cadoc
>>>(remembers having to explain the religious significance of the
>>>Canterbury tales
>>>in his college Medieval lit class...)
>>
>>And nobody accepts my theory that the Canterbury Tales is the
>>medieval equivalent of The Three Stooges...
>>
>>Adamantius (nyuck-nyuck-nyuck... woowoowoowoo)
>
>For Yer Infermayshun, Yer Hard-headedness, I did in fact write a
>paper once which did compare the Miller to Ralph Kramden/Fred
>Flintstone. And got a really good grade on if, I seem to remember.
>Sounds like it's right up yer alley, iffen I ken find the durn
>thing...
"Spredde oute, [th]ou knuckyll heades!"
"Soites! Nyukke nyukke nyukke!!!"
Ada... erm, Chirhart
--
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, "Confessions", 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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