--- On Tue, 24/3/09, Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Introduction - New Member
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 24 March, 2009, 3:30 PM
> Bonobashi wrote:
> > Most of the list will be helpful, except for
> morose, cranky old buzzards and mailing list fascists who
> are obsessed with top posting, and who have names beginning
> with V and ending with i.
> >
> Ahem! ends with a 't', guess you're still smarting from the
> last time "I
> sighed". :)
>
> -Venkat
Oh no no no no no.
Dear heavens, what a dreadful misunderstanding in the making!
I solemnly aver that I was referring to the resident haunt of the list, a close
relative of Peeves of legend, who glories in the name of Veritabil Deniabiliti.
My research shows that this is an Indo-Iranian forest deity represented in
later English folk-lore and hunting legend as Hereward the Wake. VD prowls
around the forest glades on the shores of the Caspian Sea, snapping up and
feasting on laggards from the herds of wild swine found there in times of yore.
Later, unfortunately, during the prosperous years of the Celtic tribes, these
proud animals were shipped off by greedy Armenian carpet merchants who hadn't
discovered carpets to the forests of Armorica. There they were the prey of
blood-thirsty Gallic warriors banned from battle by their ritual uncleanliness
at the time of the cutting of the holy mistletoe. VD was cut off from his
natural prey, lost his corporeal form and became a list haunt, a peculiarly
foul-smelling bogle who pounces on groups
of merry-making e-mailers and can be evicted only by the utterance of powerful
mantras of eldritch force.
Whatever could you have been thinking of? A great diplomatic calamity has been
averted.
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