Ardith Hinton wrote to James Bradley, "Rules...  2Ai." on 09-02-05 20:52

 AH>  I've heard that the "William Shakespeare" who lived in
 AH>  Stratford was an illiterate businessman.  That's why
 AH>  there are so many theories about who really wrote the
 AH>  stuff, I guess....  :-))

 JB>  I suppose he could have dictated the manuscripts, but
 JB>  that would still make the scripts in someone else's
 JB>  hand. The last theory I heard was the broker business,
 JB>  and all the laureates were in a cafuffle over it.


 AH>           Hmm... they may find it difficult to imagine how an illiterate
 AH> person could be a broker of manuscripts, but I've met
 AH> plenty of salespeople who seemed quite ignorant about what
 AH> they were dealing in!  A lot of the more entertaining
 AH> theories have to do with some individual who preferred not
 AH> to have his identity made public for one reason or another.
 AH>  I think it's quite possible that such a person might
 AH> employ a broker to distribute his work, and a broker might
 AH> be able to find a market for stuff he hadn't read himself.
 AH> He might even have supplied material to certain theatres in
 AH> exchange for a share of their receipts....  :-)

I guess they didn't ask Willy to read a script as an actor
(Masculine intentional) to dry read a part. That sounds like a funny
skit! "Willy, if you could read the part of Mercurcio, while John
tries to fumble through Juliet?" 

 AH>  Other people don't have to assist teenagers with such
 AH>  "routines of daily living" either... (wry grin).

 JB>  That's your story, and you are sticking to it? <-;


 AH>           Okay, the *vast majority* of other people don't!
 AH> I know people whose Aged Parents require help at bedtime...
 AH> as did my father when he'd had a stroke similar to Nora's.
 AH> But from what I've heard, parents of teenagers generally go
 AH> to bed whenever they feel like it & let the kids put
 AH> themselves to bed....  :-)

Again, a month and a half ago, I could have told you what we were
talking about. In an effort to keep my foot from approaching my
digestive tract again...

 JB>  I always answer others posts first, as usually they are
 JB>  a lot less involved, and take much less contemplation.
 JB>  You, are a taxing corespondent. <-|


 AH>           Thankyou for sticking with it!  From my point of
 AH> view, you write in a rather enigmatic & metaphorical style
 AH> at times... as if you were writing lyrics for a song... and
 AH> it takes me awhile to figure out what you mean.  OTOH, I
 AH> make people think.  But we seem to get onto the same wave
 AH> length eventually....  ;-)

How does it go, "I hate that about myself, what I see in that
butt-head (Fill in the name here.)."

Imagine me fifteen years ago, as I try to practise correspondence with
my lacklustre grasp of the English language. Well, more lacklustre
than it is even now.

Enigmaticistic,  is something I've noticed myself doing in real
 life, too. It's not my most proud trait, but it tends to work for
 me. I can't be too ashamed of it either. My last 'make work' project
 for myself is to curb when I just feel smug, and acknowledge a good
 mystery when it's working.


 AH>  "Old schoolteachers never die, they just lose their
 AH>  class"... [chuckle].

 JB>  How about, "Teachers without class..." Hmmm... That seems
 JB>  like a dead end.


 AH>           Yes... I used the pattern of jokes like "Old blondes never
 AH> fade, they just dye away" as a signal that the statement is a
 AH> pun.  The word "class" could be interpreted as social
 AH> status (cf. the disapproving "not our class, Dear") or as a
 AH> group of students.  The ambiguity is part of what makes it
 AH> funny....  :-))

Duality can be fun, but when you consider that a plane is not always
plain, if you try to fly one that was meant to shave wood... 

 AH>  I see you've got the drift....  :-)

 JB>  Now I'm trying to remember the lesson after my summer
 JB>  holiday.


 AH>           We were talking about possessive nouns.  If the
 AH> noun is plural it may have an "s" at the end already, in
 AH> which case we don't add another "s".  If the noun is
 AH> singular but has an "s" at the end, e.g.
"James", we may or
 AH> may not add another "s".  Either way I wouldn't lop the
"s"
 AH> off the end of your name & tack it on somewhere else... but
 AH> I've seen that done with nouns like "persons".  :-)

Now, where did I misplace my thinking cap?

Oh, that's what the pile of charcoal on the night stand is!

If the plains have a smell, do we not plain smell? ad nausea!

 JB>  brunt of the moron joke?

 AH>           Nora is mentally handicapped.  It's not a problem
 AH> in this echo... but I've run across it in public
 AH> playgrounds & in certain other echoes.

I'll make mincemeat out-a 'em. Show me where! 

What a bloody shame. If they only knew what they are missing.

 JB>  I'll go check right after I catch up to the raspberries. 


 AH>           Yes, first things first!  I love fresh raspberries....  

WOW!!! Was it *that* long ago now? It's all still a blur right now,
but CROW did I get a lot done! I did a stupid thing, and found a new
favourite auction house.  I needed replacement furniture, plus a lot of pieces I have
never bothered with until now. 

So I go to this place, and precisely forty hours after tossing
the old love-seat off the balcony, after testing the new Sawzall on it
- I'm paying for a sofa, love-seat, WELL over 1/2 ton of furniture, one
1/2 inch drill that needs new brushes, and a B&D paint stripper that
has *almost* never left the box. Four lots cost me $275, and I payed
the lot dude and his friend $60 for halin' ALL that heavy stuff.

I made off like a thief, and another girl was snappin' up all the
antique, or Italian furniture. I looked at the Italian stuff, (3/4"
MDF, with a veneer!) and she payed one TENTH its retail value. That
lot had left a show-home, and went straight to auction.

My couch had been in and out a few show-homes, and the proprietor had a
habit of siting on one arm. The cambric had been slid across a number
of baluster rails, and I've found two tufting issues to date. I plan
on piping the bottom edge, shampooing the arm, and the thread-work will
be a breeze. 

The rectangular furniture seems to all be MDF, with a photo laminate
embossed, but it all seems to top mahogany carcases. (That wood is
easily farmed.) There's a few "MADE IN CANADA" pieces that might warm
my tomato beds, or keep the apple blossoms on in a spring cold
spell. (IE: I'll use them, as firewood.)


... James
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