Lola at the Coffee House

Yeah. Bless his pea picking heart.

That reminds me of a story.

Two guys got talking in a gym. Turns out one was a surgeon, and one was a car mechanic.

The car mechanic said, "You know doc, what we do is very similar. I get a car, open up the engine, find what's wrong, fix it or put in a new part, and close it all up again. That's just like your job, when you think about it."

And the surgeon replied, "While the motor is running?"

Why, thankee ma'am. Curtsies, straining a hip thingy on the way up.....

Well, it is certainly true, if it is true, that I didn't know what part you had in arranging everything. What part was that?

Joe(if any)Nation

There was a few years back, a magazine cover of a dog with a gun to its head.
"If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog."


That sounds to me like something the Great God Jehovah would have said, I said.

Joe(I never forgot that.)Nation

That is hilarious man, seeing it for the first time now.

I suppose, that is a lighter message than "Adopt a dog or we kill it." Ya, that's too sinister.

http://www.thenewmagazinecity.com/article9.html

National Lampoon magazine cover ... considered by some to be the greatest magazine cover of all time.

Oh dear!!

Its probably because most English writers get paid by the word, and they seek to enrich themselves by each draft.

Clemens could say, in a single , comma-free phrase, what took several of your literary heros , several chapters to saythe same thing.

"Fine writing" is oft confused with depth, and humor is oft confused with banal. However, in almost all cases, Clemens was the originator of the thought.

Lola grabs a quick coffee on her way to visit her sister. Back later.

But then again you don't know what you're talking about ...

weird how we seem to talk in the third person. Very weird. SIgns of nascent cereal killers

I ain't never killed no cereal . . . well, there was that one time when i trampled some millet . . . but that was a accident ! ! !

DAMN YOU, You killed your own fodder

I kilt a grainy fruit once't, which also makes me a pearicide.

I got nothin..

I need a sammich, I ate breakfast like 5 AM in the morning

Do you have to blab that out to everyone?

Not so the best English writers. You are comparing "most English writers" to what you consider one of the best American writers. Which is a sophistry playing on the unwary not grasping the significance of the "most". I would guess that most American writers get paid by the word and judging by the flummery I have seen it certainly shows. And, from what I gather, Mr Clemens was skint and didn't fancy laying railway tracks or clearing forests. He wrote for money. Why are you distinguishing between "by the word" and "by the book". More sophistry for the unwary. And anyway Mr Clemens was a journalist and would know everything there is to know about being paid by the word.

And never trust a man with a tash (mouse) my father often said, especially a tash like the one Mr Clemens liked to sport. All shaved and clipped into shape in the salon with a towel round his neck and a questionable looking gentleman faffing around him and flattering the **** out of him. That being one way of turning a trick.



It would be good of you to provide a couple of examples. I have met ladies, not a few, who could say with one slightly raised eyebrow more than the sum total of all the knowledge and wisdom of the world. At some points at least. And whatever Mr Clemens said in a single, comma free phrase, was also at a similar point in time.

It is also possible, possibly probably, that the "several chapters" you refer to were saying something beyond your intellectual reach.

But an example or two of the comma-free phrases would be useful to our understanding in such an erudite and esteemed coffee-house as this one. One wouldn't wish our fragrant and estimable hostess to be discovered presiding over dock-yard talk. And that is what assertions amount to not matter how carefully disguised. And yours are blatant.



Again, to labour the point, what thought did Mr Clemens originate?

And I wish you would desist from truncating my sentences.

This is what I had said--" It is probably a personal prejudice, incurable I'm afraid, against works of artistic merit which exclude cultured European ladies and their servants, intricately interwoven with some uncultured ones."

I trust you can see what a distortion of my meaning you have perped. Even Mr Clemens would surely have disapproved of one of his followers engaging in such diabolical activities. It suggests they have been influenced by him in this respect.

I gather that Mr Clemens squandered a substantial proportion of his wife's inheritance on his schemes.