Re: Lay on, Macduff...

wait...wait...are you complaining about off topic posts?

oh do PLEASE complain about off topic posts :).

Sigh.

I guess it really wasn't a complaint about off topic posts.

Jim

PS we all congregate around television sets to watch "Titus" and "The Benny
Hinn Show" two days a week, exchanging flatulence and nude pictures of the
women in our lives. The location is secret. You're obviously not one of
Us.

Kim Johnson wrote:

> just don't agree that a salinger listserv is the place
> to be posting asides better suited for a men's
> lockerroom or wherever little boys who haven't grown
> up congregate.
>
> kim
>
> --- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> > Ehm, it's one thing for an old woman to be an old
> > woman. It's another
> > thing for a 20-30 year old male or female to be an
> > old woman :).
> >
> > They're even more of an old woman than old women :).
> >
> > I had one very old grandmother who was remarkable
> > and another who was,
> > pitiably, an old woman.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > Will Hochman wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > Indeed. There's a surprising number of old
> > > > women to be found in both sexes.
> > > >
> > > > Scottie B.
> > >
> > > Sorry to be so sincere...I know much of what is
> > posted is joking, but
> > > some of the best human qualities I've experienced,
> > I have found in
> > > abundance in people Scottie might see as "old
> > women." I had dinner
> > > last night with "E." She's 81. Her 92 year old
> > husband, a brilliant
> > > man, is suffering from Altziemher's (sp) disease
> > and spends his days
> > > in his park ave apt in a hospital bed uncertain
> > about most things he
> > > perceives. The strength and wisdom of E was
> > incredible. We played
> > > chess and she didn't give up. She doesn't walk
> > well, she has no
> > > children and sick siblings, and she didn't
> > complain to me, not once.
> > > E simply didn't lose her heart, head and spirit to
> > the kinds of
> > > thinks that humble most of us. If I have a small
> > fraction of what E
> > > has in her, I'm better for it and so are those who
> > listen closely to
> > > the words and deeds of "old women." will
> > >
> > > PS: E lives at 1120 park ave...just a door or two
> > away from where JDS
> > > used to live.
> > >
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