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Letters From Lord Hydacott: The War Years
Dated this, the twenty-third Day
of the ninth Month of the Third
Year of the Dawn of the Third
Millenium, or so I am Informed
Blotshire, County of Gout
Little Nestor,
I am in receipt of the Videotape of your goalkeeping debut against that bitterest of interschool Rivals, Primpton K.G. — how unsporting on its part, to so exploit your genius for the Angle; and after the sixteenth Tally, I suspect that malice was actively, as it were, afoot.
But tho’ I am Vexed and Affrighted, to have in the Hydacott line a great-grandson of such scant athletic promise, I offer to you this Counsel: It is Defeat — wrenching, punishing, scouring, excoriating, shattering, o’erarching &c. Defeat — that obliges us to Reflect, to take Stock, to re-examine our place in Creation’s intricate Scheme, and also to indulge in whimsical notions of plumping up the Gas bill and never, ever, paying it.
Read more Comments are off for this postPaul’s Letter To The Colossal Insurance Company
1. I am Paul (ne Saul) of Tarsus, a saint of a fellow (enc. glowing reference from the Thessalonians, Rick and Vera), and a deeply embittered claimant regarding an incident on the road to Damascus, your file #513-4B-8012.
2. While approaching Damascus, a blinding light DID envelop me, and I DID become one with the ground, in the process sustaining multiple abrasions, contusions, wounds, traumas, e.g., my right ankle, which will now torment me ‘til the end of my days and likely beyond, though this is a matter of some theological debate. And I HAVE since been plagued by vivid and troubling Vietnam flashbacks, all the more unsettling in that I’ve never been to Vietnam. And my ankle is still very, VERY tender. Not that I’m complaining or anything.
2. And my boyhood dreams of attending matador school ARE shattered and lain waste.
Read more Comments are off for this postBoycott France - REDUX
I posted the following in March, but it needs to be put up again in light of that dreadful cartoon I linked to below. The French deserve no mercy.
Don’t spend your money here!
Here is a list of all the companies the Frogs have their appeasing mitts in. One exception to my anti-French stance is Jean Paul Gaultier. His passionate fisking of PETA and their idiocies is something to support. (And yes, JPG does things for men.) List provided by Metrospy.
Air France, Air Liquide, Airbus, Alcatel – Based in Paris France; Allegra (Allergy Medication) – Produced by Aventis Pharmaceuticals based in Strasbourg, France; Aqualung (Including: Spirotechnique, Technisub, US Divers, and SeaQuest); AXA Advisors, Bank of the West – Owned by BNP Paribas Beneteau (boats); BF Goodrich – Owned by Michelin; .....
see the extended entry for the complete listing, in case you want to copy it for your own personal use …..
Read more 1 commentBlast From The Past
I’m a fairly good amateur chess player. I’m not rated, but I guess that I’d be 1900, 2000 on a good day on the FIDE scale. Masters and Grandmasters are about at 2400 and up. Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer are currently rated at 2838 and 2780 respectively.
Which brings me in a roundabout way to my favorite TV show, The West Wing.
Not that I watch it often, but I occasionally click through the channels and come across it and am compelled to observe, the way that you in spite of your better judgment stare at a bad car crash.
Read more 2 commentsBlogger gets its final revenge
Well having had no end of problems importing my archives from Blogger to MT, I have decided on a quick & dirty solution. Below you will find several posts which collectively contain the Dodgeblogium archive. This will be a temporary solution, until I figure out how to do it properly.
Update: For some stupid reason I managed to lose the titles of all the posts…sigh. Mighty careless of me.
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