Re: Lay on, Macduff...

no, not off topic. perhaps off color.
in his place benny--hill (i assume)--is funny.
but to obsal:
apart from 'raise high' and 'zooey' can any one think
of a salinger story with a cigar and not his
ubiquitous cigarettes?

kim

--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> 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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