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- From: Steve.Larson@p0.f10.n3402.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Larson)
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- Subject: RE: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
- Message-ID: <22354.2B0FA120@puddle.fidonet.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 23:31:19 PDT
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- In a message <17 Nov 92 22:11:00> to <Steve Larson> about <RE: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!>,
- Peter Macinnis wrote:
- SL> PM> Incidentally, there are some of us who maintain that Charley Jug-ears
- SL> PM> can never be Charles III: that king died in 1788, just five days after
- SL> PM> Australia was founded.
-
- SL>Was he walled up in a wine cellar? :-)
-
- PM> You've got me there, sport! The nearest I can come up with was
- PM> Clarence who ended his days in a butt of Malmsey, or Charles Edward
- PM> Stuart's dad, supposed to have spent some time in a warming pan.
- PM> What's the reference, or is it just BPC's drinking problems in his
- PM> later days?
-
- Something about your message was POEtic..."The Cask of Amontillado" is a
- short story by Edgar Allen Poe in which an individual gains revenge by
- walling up his enemy in a wine cellar. Aaah, yes, I remember! You quoted
- a Latin phrase which was the family motto of the protagonist in that story:
- "Nemo me impune lacessit." (No one challenges me with impunity.)
-
- PM> Blame it on the fact that I'm on holidays and doing some
- PM> building in preparation for summer: hehehe, I'm sitting here in bare
- PM> feet with the window open.
-
- I'm sitting here with my boots on getting ready to go out and shovel the
- snow off the driveway and sidewalk. :-(
-
- Regards,
- Steve
-
- ... 1200 baud makes you want to get out and PUSH!
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