--- On Tue, 24/3/09, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Thaths <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Introduction - New Member
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 24 March, 2009, 6:53 PM
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:36 AM,
> Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Bonobashi wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> > You should seriously consider a career in mashups.
> Nice imagination and
> > a good mix of PGW, G&U, JRRT... who did I miss?
>
> And all that VD stuff!? Straight out of a public health
> film shown to
> navy longshoremen during the war.
>
> Thaths
An unfortunate - a MOST unfortunate juxtaposition. None could regret the
inadvertent nominal proximity of an unmentionable situation with an agreeable
bon viveur more than I. If only those silly Indo-Scythe and Wessons had broader
vocabularies!!
Strange are the ways of Fate...
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