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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 05 May 2007 - Volume 07</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_globalmoose@t-online.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Global Moose Translations <<a href="mailto:globalmoose@t-online.de">
globalmoose@t-online.de</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Literature"
2007.05.05 (04) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q">
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Mark
Dreyer wrote:</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>>By
the way, My Ruth holds that shaggy stories are waste of brain space, & we
should desist:</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>>Forthwith. so, I shall spare you all the delights
of the doings of Wally & Goppy, & Tarzant,</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>>& the Dread Mystery of the
Monk.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span></span></font> </div></span>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Oh, I
am completely with Your Ruth on that one!! When people take that long to tell a
story, it had better be a good one.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span></span></font> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Gabriele Kahn<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">----------</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></font>From: <span id="_user_edsells@cogeco.ca" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Ed Alexander <<a href="mailto:edsells@cogeco.ca">edsells@cogeco.ca</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg">
</span><br>Subject: LL-L "Literature" 2007.05.05 (04) [E]<br>
<br><div style="direction: ltr;">At 02:04 PM 05/05/07 -0700, Sandy wrote:<br><br>>Go on then, just bring up all those disturbing childhood memories of jokes<br>>that stopped me laughing for a week!<br><br>All of this, plus the impending visit of Her Majesty the Queen of Canada to
<br>Kentucky for this year's Derby, reminds me of the Kentucky horselover who<br>owned the most beautiful steed in the entire state. He paraded it at every<br>local and county fair as well as the State Fair, at which it won every
<br>prize for beauty. And the secret of its great beauty was its long flowing<br>mane.<br><br>However, one day some wrens (much like our Lowlands ones) decided to build<br>their nest in this mane, and by so doing destroyed the animal's attractiveness.
<br><br>The poor owner took the horse from vet to vet to try to rid his beast of<br>this scourge, but, alas, to no avail. That is until one day an old crone<br>(speaking the most proper lowlands Appalachian dialect) advised him to just
<br>add some yeast to the mane and see what happened.<br><br>Well, much to everyone's surprise, the wrens immediately packed their<br>little bags and took off (back to the garage?), which is why it is said that:<br><br>
Yeast is yeast, and nest is nest, and ne'er the mane shall tweet.<br></div><span class="sg"><br>Ed Alexander</span><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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