Heard on The Boondocks

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why the whole container and not just the top [opening]--head?

Different strokes for different folks? Nobody ever explained it to me
your way before.

My intuition is that the reference is to the fact that the OJ is going
directly into his mouth - located in his head - directly from the
carton, unmediated by any other container and not to the pourspout of
the carton being on its top, therefore metaphorically on its "head."

My interpretation is, IMO, hipper than yours, which is too obvious and
lame. ;-) However, I definitely accept the validity of your
interpretation, since we're dealing with a hapax. There's no more
evidence to be adduced, absent finding the writer asking him what,
exactly, he had in mind, and your interpretation makes perfect sense
to me. Indeed, were I a neutral observer, I might very well accept
your interpretation. ;-)

Here we have yet another demonstration why The One True Faith once
found it to be in its interest to keep Holy Writ - as Scripture is /
was*? known in Catholicism - out of the hands of those who might
"misinterpret" it. :-)

*I haven't been particularly active in the RCCh in dekkids, so I'm not
sure. I've noticed that the Jacobean _Revelations_ appears to have
replaced what was once known as _The Apocalypse_ in the Anglo-Papal
circles of my youth. The OTF may also have yielded on _Holy Writ_,
too. Sad, if true. "Holy Writ" is *so* OE!

--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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