A Digression Thread: or old furniture in a new house.

Ladders ... they're called ladders, not runs.

Gosh, indeed.

Ladders, nobody in California calls them ladders. Well, now, not so many of us in California wear hose, or nylons, unless under extreme duress, such as a job interview or a night at the Opera, both of which occasions might result in some inadvertant flirtation but it would not be a good idea, in either case, would it? Or maybe it would, maybe at the Opera you could wangle a seat closer to the stage, or even better, further away from it.

osso, I went to the ballet tonight and the prima wore a costume featuring tights with one purple leg and one white. I am considering wearing this outfit to the next local gathering. Would this go over in your area?

I do worry about ladders.......

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Runs - ladders - unravellings - whispery tickling entropy - call them what you will!

Hey! I am all alone here! I can do what I like and there is none to let or hinder! I am the only person currently logged in ......... carefully stepping over snoring bodies, and heroically resisting the impulse to do something undignified to the helpless sleepers ..... I can raise my skirts (if I were wearing any) and show my stockings (only I am not wearing any of those, either) - what is that I hear you calling from the future? Smeg you all! I am wearing slacks and a tee shirt! Sheeesssshhhhhhhh!

It is the perfectest of perfect days here - hence all the drivers have gone completely mad and decided to get out there and drive and drive and drive - and also to have accidents - nary a one have I seen on the 6 lane highway outside my windows before, but today? first one then another and now a huge pile-up with ambulances and fire-engines and suchlike. I was not here when it happened, for I have been out driving like a dodgem car through all the madness, and emerging unscathed. Phew.

Peoples is like mad march hares round here in November!

I'm going to suspend MA's parentheses privileges due to, um, waaay more of them in his post on page 10 than most people see in a lifetime.

Dontcha folks know parentheses cost money? It's the curvy part - they're handcrafted in Madagascar out of misshapen commas, fashioned in a kiln heated to 75,000 degrees F and then plunged immediately into a bath of dry ice. They are then wrapped in blue beeswax and mauve tissue paper and shipped here for your use via express shipping.

* Rest assured that Able2Know only uses the finest handcrafted free-range parentheses, we do not believe in child punctuation labor, and we pay our Madagascar (Madagascarian? Madagascaresque? Madcap?) parentheses craftspersons a living wage.

The UPS man who delivers to our office is really cute.

Goodness Jespah! I shall be afeared ever to use such a thing as a parenthesis again!



Yes, Peace and Love, but do you flirt with him inadvertantly?

Or even advertantly?

I just knew these were high-quality perentheseses and I'm sorry if I made a hog out of myself. (Never could resist a plump, juicy perenth.) And are your brackets organically grown. Jes?

Daddy has a Harbor Seal
(It's diction flows with ease)
But it lacks Elements of Style
Too many ( )


Or

Daddy has a Harbor Seal
They're happy campers &
They like to write & when they do
They use the &

Hi deb, all. Only read the first and latest pages of this digression, but, gee, it's just like old times, eh?

Seal - lovely! They should be posted in BOTH the doggerel threads!

It does indeed resemble old times - days ago they was....

I just created a doggeral thread...

Should I create a Sealleral thread?

Why not create an eternal limerick thread! AND a Sealleral thread?

Pop into the duelling doggerel thread - mine - if you want to read some more silly verse. I imagine we will now all decamp to your nice fresh clean one!

Madagascar madam?
Are you mad?
I fear that we are being had!

Your virtuosity astounds,
It makes me smile (look at my mug )
But such wild fibbing's out of bounds
You'd have us 'fraid to ((((((((((((hug!!)))))))))))


PS Hi Sealpoet bienvenido!
Hi P & L (belatedly)...had a nice time in NY eh?

did i see a non-canajun using an eh without dispensation?

hmmmmm, heads will roll. where are mckenzie and blatham and danE? we must discuss this incident.

(dlowan thinks uhoh, we Australians say eh too, does this mean war with CANAJA?!)

If ehBeth considers this a day which will live in infamy, we're ALL in trouble. (Even I have been known to say 'eh' now and then.)

She's a tough one, eh ?

Think i'll go have another doughtnut, anyone goin' by Tim Horton's at the shoppin' centre ?

Dammit! We must die as men and women, not live as slaves!

EH?!!!!