"Eeyore" noun attr.

[Joel S. Berson]

{Being sent 3 days late to the list, because I didn't notice my reply
had gone only to Page Stephens.)

Joel

It was James Gorman who wrote in the NYTimes on June 13 that mules
are smarter than horses.  A horse will let a cruel master work it to
death.  A mule, on the other hand, will kick a cruel master to death.

Joel

At 6/23/2006 05:11 PM, you wrote:
>I may not be an expert on what Eeyore sounds like but as anyone who has
>read anything I have uploaded to this list knows I am an expert on making
>an ass of myself.
>
>For those of you who may think that a donkey goes hee haw I have another
>think coming for you.
>
>You city fellas have probably never spent much time except figuratively
>with jackasses like myself but let me tell you that they are perhaps the
>horniest beasts you will ever run across in you life. In other words no
>matter how tall it is they will mount it which partially accounts for the
>large numbers of mules we used to have in spite of the fact that mules are
>sterile.
>
>The offspring of a horse and a jenny is called a hinny and is neither as
>large as the horse nor as strong and therefore undesirable.
>
>The sound a jackass makes is nothing like hee haw but rather something
>which sounds like hawhee, hawhee, hawhee ... while exhaling on the haw and
>inhaling on the hee.
>
>I would be able to reproduce it for you in person but I am damned if I know
>to describe it in print.
>
>Anyone who snorts like that when they speak shouldn't at least in polite
>company unless they are unable to avoid it because they are burping at the
>same time and can't avoid doing it in which case they might be described as
>making a sound like Eeyore might make.
>
>Page Stephens
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Bill Lemay <blemay0 at MCHSI.COM>
> > To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Date: 6/23/2006 3:36:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "Eeyore" noun attr.
> >
> > Two hits for "eeyorish voice"
> >
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> > > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > > Subject:      "Eeyore" noun attr.
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> > > "Chan's story is moving nonetheless, and with her unseeing eyes and
> > > dark Eeyore voice, she's a presence you don't want to let go of."
> > >
> > > Boston Globe, Movie Review, "A fragmented look at lives of longing"
> > > (review of "Be With Me"), June 23, 2006, D12/6.
> > >
> > > Google hits for  "eeyore voice" -"eeyore's voice" -"(voice)"  -- are
>zero.
> > >
> > > Joel
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