On or about 05-23-10 23:56, Ardith Hinton allegedly uttered "Just Couldn't
Resist" to James Bradley:

 JB>  "There she goes again!" (IOW, "At-a girl!" P-)
 AH>  Glad you like it....  :-)  :-)  :-)
 JB>  Would I come back if I didn't? 

 AH> Good point!  Nevertheless, you warmed the cockles of my heart.

To quote George W. "Mission accomplished!" 


 JB>  "The Irish are the only race immune to psychotherapy."
 JB>  Perhaps generations of oppression
 JB>  garnered something in the Irish upbringing?


 AH>           I'm also curious about what prompted him to make such a
 AH> remark... if indeed he did.  Some Irish people may have regarded him
 AH> as just another bl**dy foreigner trying to tell them what
 AH> to do & failed to give his work the respect he thought it
 AH> deserved.  The irony is that without him & others who came
 AH> after him it wouldn't have occurred to me that he sounds a
 AH> bit defensive there.  :-)

It might have been all the above.  I know his theories were
ridiculed relentlessly by scholars. That pretty much exhausts my anecdotal
stories about the man or his profession.


 AH> of "you-had-to-be-there" humour and/or gallows humour, however!

Speaking of puns... (I know. We weren't. |-) Wouldn't slapstick
supersede(/subside) it as the lowest form of humour?

 AH> Around these parts we keep hearing we're overdue for a
 AH> major earthquake & we're at risk for whatever dreadful
 AH> disease has recently appeared in SomePlace Else.  The
 AH> efforts made to take charge of such things are often of
 AH> such nature that if I didn't laugh I'd probably cry.  Years
 AH> ago people used to say "Coughs & sneezes spread diseases;
 AH> use your handkerchief."  While it is certainly SJ logic it makes more
 AH> sense to me than the official notices in public places
 AH> instructing me to use disposable paper towel where no paper
 AH> towel is available, or requiring everybody to use a "hand
 AH> sanitizer"... with a label which makes no claims about its
 AH> effectiveness in controlling any living organism except
 AH> bacteria... when the real concern is about a virus.  SARS &
 AH> H1N1 are viruses.  Dallas & I caught another variant of the
 AH> latter some years ago, when the press didn't make a big
 AH> deal of it.  We do find the aftereffects challenging.  But
 AH> we are alive to tell the tale....  :-)

'Smokers in California will have the last laugh. When the next "big
one" hits,
they will all be in a doorway smokin' a butt.'

How does this affect me? Your last shaker closed off the geothermal pipe to our
Banff Springs, and now we can't take a soothing mineral bath in our hot
springs. 

Ya, those wet-naps do little but kill off beneficial bacteria along with the
bad, but what else do we have? I'll use the cursed things every time I pick up
a shopping cart, but as a side benefit, I usually have a palm of compost, or
KFC to scrape off while I'm disinfecting the last patron's sneeze from the
handle. 

 JB>  stay at out place]. You're used to rain, right?


 AH>           Uh-huh.  Many years before we had an opportunity to visit
 AH> Ketchikan, Alaska, Dallas & I were aware that Ketchikan
 AH> gets at least twice as much rain per annum as we do.  We
 AH> brought our usual rain gear with us, and we laughed at the
 AH> local teenagers who laughed at tourists with $1.49 plastic
 AH> raincoats.  ;-)

No matter where you go, chances are your wardrobe will be short of the
challenge. Just before our latest snow, I realized my rain hat needed
waterproofing. Living in this semi-arid climate, I'm never too far from
dehumidification.  I wonder what those kids would have thought of me
with a shopping bag over my head? 


 AH> Victoria Day weekend is the traditional "rule of thumb"
 AH> landmark after which we can be reasonably sure the
 AH> temperature won't drop below freezing overnight.  In
 AH> Calgary YMMV....  :-)

I was teasing with my neighbour, "There's a new rule in town!" We
usually use
the same long weekend as a frost-free safe date. The forecast low for June
First; +1^C! Ya, our mileage may vary... Very strange! 



... "We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him" -- Napoleon
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