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Subject: Re: [OM] Happy Birthday Ben
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:34:59 -0400
And maybe just in time to give more advice on knee replacements.  I have 
scheduled both knee joints to be sawed out and new ones to be glued in 
and sewn up on October 6.  I will probably be mostly incommunicado for a 
while thereafter.

And no doubt we colonists continue to inflict barbarities on the 
language and with great glee.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt


Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I have timed my return to coincide with the 300th birthday of Dr  
> Johnson, a great man of letters. Recently I had the pleasure of  
> visiting his childhood home (now a museum) in Lichfield, just down  
> the road from the home of Erasmus Darwin in fact.
> It was sam who wrote the first proper dictionary of the English  
> language, probably in response to the barbarities inflicted upon it  
> by the colonies. He was also a man much given to the pleasures of the  
> flesh, despite girth, age and infirmity (my hero) and who once  
> offered the following piece of logic (paraphrased) -
> The greatest pleasure is sex, the second, drink.
> Given that he former is not always available to everyone, it is  
> astonishing that there are not far more drunkard reeling around the  
> streets.
> (Note for pedants - he didn't actually use the term sex - he was  
> somewhat more direct).
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.pbase.com/afildes
> 
> 
> 
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