| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
The following was extracted from the Contra Costa Times, April 8, 1986.
The columnist (Gary Bogue) who wrote the column from which this was
borrowed (stolen) is the local pet and animal expert. The prior
columns had been discussing animal reactions to the recent earthquakes
in the area.
Start of Quote
Dear Gary,
Roxane Clyde's letter in your column of Saturday, April 5, states
that the flock of crows that frequent the eucalyptus trees near
her house awakened her with their frantic cawing just prior to last
Monday morning's earthquake, and shortly thereafter the quake hit,
and they were all silent once more.
Do you suppose that those wily old birds had a promonition of a
seismic disturbance, and decided to conduct a "cawcus" to decide
if the occasion merited an alarm?
Martin Bridges,
Concord
Dear Martin,
You ought to be ashamed of yourself for exposing everyone to such
an outlandish form of punishment!
Everyone knows they were sumply cawling for order.
End Quote
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 173.1 | More Cawcawphony | THEBAY::WAKEMANLA | Larry "Super SWS" Wakeman | Tue Apr 15 1986 16:22 | 21 |
The following was a reply to the original letter:
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Dear Gary,
In Martin Bridges' letter of Tuesday, April 8, he opens the door
to bird puns with "crows in cawcus," but your sniping back with
"cawing for order" is hard to swallow and robin us of our sanity.
Bird puns, although not ill eagle, will tern your stomach in time.
I predict that this behavior is contagious and people keep pigeon
them in until you shrike out.
Or worse, you could tear your hair and wren your clothes; maybe
even climb the walls with Isis [Isis is Gary's pet cat and the subject
of many a fine column - ed].
John Cunningham,
Concord
Dear John,
Your letter is a flock of inconsistencies.
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