Re: wha's like's?
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:24:51 -0400 (EDT)
Scottie:
Stop me if I've told you any of this before.... (This story always makes me
feel like the Ancient Mariner.... Opps, I didn't mean to mention Bowmore...)
As an undergraduate, I shared an alcoholic evening with H. M. R. D..... His
majesty drank (at the expense of the university in which I was enrolled)....
I didn't.... The evening ended with those of us who closed the bar
pretending to be the Mills Brothers.... VERY SCAREY!
R. D. arose much earlier than I the following morning. He made an
appearance at an undergraduate reception for students in the Psychology
Department. (My attendance was far from compulsory, since I'd longsince
taken the High Road to study history.... ) It was quite an appearance.....
Laing asked them to play "Sweet Georgia Brown" over the sound system in the
lecture hall.... He walked to the front of the room, and mooned the
assembled throng. EVEN SCARIER!!!!
I'm about 200 miles from my beloved Oxford Collected Burns, but I'm going to
spend several hours this weekend (once I've bridged that gap) seeking
lowland Scottish references to 'tears', so that I can show you on Monday
morning (when I return) that real men often DO cry--even though the same
guys also sometimes wear those silly tartan dresses.
(De-alcoholized) Cheers,
Paul
PS--I've typed a similarly de-alcoholized salutation to my good buddy
Tim.... on this very list.... I'm beginning to wonder whether the entire
bananafishbowl is TT....
Say it isn't so, Rick! (Will? Thor? Somebody?....)