Sinister: if margaret thatcher is the devil, noah webster was surely her handmaiden

[m.e. curtin]

well hello,

i must say i'm a little miffed to note that no one has mentioned a certain
perry como's death.  shame on you indie kids!  you should all be sewing
black arm bands on your cardigans......it's the least you could do.  you
owe such fashion to this crooner of happy memory.  well, him and arnold
palmer anyway.

do any of you remember that creepy show mastermind?  i have only vague
memories of it as i was a diminuitive young thing when i first took to
watching bbc filler on pbs (yay buffalo (and now toronto) pbs - you've got
nothing on erie county!).  anyway, i do remember a bunch of tweed-clad 
crackpot contestants sweating over ridiculously obscure questions in black
leather chairs.  now that was a real quiz show.  anyway, i was at this
silly booksale the other day and i found teh official mastermind
(two) quizbook for a quarter.  naturally i bought it.  out of some 800+
questions i knew about 6 answers legitimately.  and i only knew about the
playboy of the western world/aran island connection cuz i read about it
the night before in a linguistics book.  i guess i really only knew 5 and
a half answers.  where was i going with this story?  typing this has just
made me start wondering how many mastermind contestants were elvis
fans.  theyy definitely took care of business.  yes, they're the
boss(es).  i wouldn't be at all surprised if more than 60% of all
successful contestants were elvis fans.  he's the mark of genius.  i love
elvis.  but i'm not a genius.  (sigh).  i'm not even mildly
competent.  that's okay.  i'm in a union.  go cupe local 32! you can
drive a city truck into the river without being terminated, but don't you
dare not wear your VIBRANT orange shirt to work.  that would spell
d-i-s-a-s-t-e-r surely.  

i think next time i post (i'm guessing september 17) i might try to use
proper sentence structure, and i may even use the correct puncuation.  i
know it's crazy, but i like living on the edge.

nite nite kidlets
marybeth

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