cacotopia

[Wilson Gray]

Get real, Charlie! I can deal with that. What got to me is the fact
that, as a fellow Texan, you failed to have my back. <just kidding, of
course>

BTW, did you notice that William Salmon is from Corpus?

-Wilson

On 10/16/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> Poster:       Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
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> I'm sorry, Wilson!  I was insensitive in not considering the possibility that you may have suffered the disadvantage of learning Greek at an early age.  (Most of us, you know, were proud of our monolingual command of Texian.)
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> Well, Uranus probably won't remain a planet much longer anyhow--then all possible disagreements will vanish.
>
> --Charlie
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> >Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:08:38 -0400
> >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >Subject: Re: cacotopia
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> >The OED has both pronunciations, giving pride of place to YOU-r at n@s.  As fate would have it, I learned the Greek word long before I ever heard anyone pronounce the name of the planet, though, of course, I had seen it in print.
> >
> >Hey! What's up with this kigmy ["an expression of hostility from an unexpected source"], Charlie? You're my home boy! "One of them good folk who come from home," as the old recitation has it. As the company clerk once put it as he forged the absent CO's signature on my application for a three-day pass, "WTF? You from Texas, too." (He was from Gilmer, a hoot and a holler to the NW of Marshall.) He had my back. You're supposed to have my back, too!
> >
> >-Wilson ;-)
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