Hebonics

Diane, Milton schmilton, or toitle schmoitle.

Jeannne, So you're finally gonna come east. And it's about time. So I'll meet you already.

Roger, This is a place, Farmington? As for chopped liver, I make it to die for.

Margo, Not to worry. You don't have to talk hebonically to be here.

Jeanne deSeattle -- when in Boston, don't forget who else lives here -- Jespah, Seal Poet, LittleK, that's who. Oh, yeah. Me too. Give us a PM, an e-mail even. We'd all love to meet you. Roboita could come up from down there in...what's the name of that furchlugginer burg again? After all, I drove down to meet her and Piffka and Peace and Love and Beedlesquoink.

[How's that for laying on a guilt trip, Roberta? Guilt. The gift that keeps on giving.]

Merry Andrew,
Yes, you give the gift that keeps on giving...guilt. Wish I had been able to be in NYC to show you all around. Not that I lived there, although I did, but knowing what is good and interesting to see and do.

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Hi Margo! Good to see you too!

Hi Roger! Good to see you, and where is Farminton? World-class music teachers it has? The daughter passed up a bigger scholarship and the chance to be with dear friends at another major conservatory in order to study with a particular teacher. So, Boston may be attractive, I don't doubt that it is, but it was the teacher that brought her there.

Merry Andrew,
Thanks for the invitation. I would love to meet you Bostonians. I should send you a pm? A prime minister already? A post meridiem? A postmaster? A postmortem? (too soon, too soon, a postmortem is to die for.)
I met little k not long ago in Seattle. D'artagnan was there and Peace and Love, and the stoat too. Seattle people can be social even!

Roboita,
How far is NYC from Boston? Of course I have to meet you. Coming to the east coast without meeting you would be a wasted trip already!

Jeanne deSeattle

Oy! She doesn't know from pms. Bubbelah, a PM is a private message, like a e-mail that's internal for A2K. There's a little icon at the bottom of your post which says 'PM' on it. If I was to click on it right now, I could send you a private a message to your profile page. You can click on the PM icon on my recent post and send me a letter mit hexes and hos on the bottom. It's that simple.

NYC is about 250 miles south of the Hub on the Universe, more or less. Four and a half hour drive until you hit the traffic on the Triboro Bridge. From then on, it's another four hours to Times Square.

But for what should you wanna go to Times Square I don't know.

Quick on the draw you are, MA! For only a minute I turn my back, and a message already! I don't wanna go to Times Square -- I wanna meet Roboita.

Jeanne deSeattle

Hi, all hebonicswise or foolish. I speak up for the foolish, bubi. So, SeattleF, it is good you should go there. I am jealous already but Roberta would correct me if I let her that I mean envious. Somehow envious doesn't sound right.

You need, I should tell you, to stop in the Big Apple. I did, you can do this too. It is a trainride from Boston, short enough already. Boston I have many reasons to see, not least my friends. But also my mother and her mother were born there and I heard all about it. Plus the museums, I need to go. Also I have cousins. Do I have cousins? And family mishegas. Let me tell you, a bit for that, more time to meet my pals.

Do it, you'll be happy.

Hi Osso!
Did Paco pose for the icon?

A trainride you say? Trainrides I love!!! I could just sit there not driving! Woo hoo!

Jeanne deSeattle

Quick on the draw you are, MA! For only a minute I turn my back, and a message already! I don't wanna go to Times Square -- I wanna meet Roboita.

Jeanne deSeattle

Not as hard as it seems. Grand Central, a taxi, you're there.
Not that I took the train myself, I need to go back. And west. And east. But I did see Grand Central. Let me tell you, forget staying at the YMCA. I know better now.

But I did take the busses and subways, wheee! (Diane was there too..)

But Boston, we were talking Boston. They do funny stuff with drinks, like frappes.

Now how did that message get posted again? It must have sent itself as I was returning here through the 'back arrow'.

And don't forget the swan rides in Boston. I was born in Newton, so I should know. Family in Marshfield, Shrewsbury, and the Cape. And NYC is only 3 1/2 hours away, and buses are cheaper. Trains are dear.

You go, and maybe I can come also.

Yes, that is Pacco typing.....

Back in '68, was it?, I took my mother back east. We took the greyhound from Boston to NY. She didn't want to see anything. (fill in your own phrases)

yes, beginning alzheimer's.

So memories of frustration and sorrow.

Went again earlier this year for too short a time. Just a start, she says.

Sorry, loss of hebonic structure.

By October the Swan Boats are in mothballs, or whaetver kind of balls they pack boats in. Columbus Day they roll up all the Summer goodies. But you can go for a ride on the Duck Boat, a reg'lar touristy thing to do. Wear waterwings. Those things go right into the river so you should get a look at the skyline. Train shmain. From Laguardia to Logan they have reg'lar shuttle airline service on the hour.

For some things, hebonics is inadequate. There is a universal there that transcends all.

Go back again.

Well, really, who of us are adequate, even girded as we are with language structure. Still, I like all the language structure and circumstance.

Swan boat . . . duck boat . . .

yes, the shuttle plane might be best. Undoubtedly, my free time for hobnobbing will be limited since the primary purpose of the trip is to see my daughter's new school, neighborhood, etc.

And there is work to consider. I only get paid when I work and I have a demanding boss. (self-employed)

Jeanne

A newbie still! To be an oldbie I must write how many times already?

Jeanne

Can't remember, but don' worry. Be happy.