LadleRatRottenHut!!!!! Be still my heart.
Brilliant in sooo many ways... Yonder nor sourghum stenches shut ladle
gulls torque wet strainers!
You know, HL Chace wrote/rewrote a number of those. All are beloved
and collected by word-y and book-y people. And of course locally our
own Robin Williams, the woman, the artist, the writer, uses them
copiously in her books on graphic design.
Re Little Black Sambo, and I suppose Suzanne has several copies of it
amongst your bookish walls?
Time to make the donuts.
...good thing this conversation is finally petering out, because
personally I've been feeling like butter for several days...
Tory
On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:18 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Steve,
Do you remember in what childhood story, things run round and round
a tree
until they turn into butter?
My mixed allusions were definitely intentional. The reference of
course, is how we, the FRIAM community are very good at hashing and
rehashing the same material until even those of us doing the hashing
(can you find the etymology for hashing?) are even tired enough of
the sight of our own tails that we might as well turn into butter
from all that agitation.
The story of course, would be "Little Black Sambo" where he lead
the Tigers out to eat him for breakfast to chase one another around
a palm tree until they turned to butter (something about vanity
amongst the tigers who had first stolen his clothing, etc.). This
story, of course is now totally and completely politically
incorrect, though the Sambo was a very dark southern Indian boy I
believe as opposed to a Black African Slave in the southern US as
many people assume. (else it would have been panthers?)
In any case, the restaurant chain "Sambo's" who used the boy and his
tigers as Icons made a mean stack of pancakes with plenty of
*butter* (which as a child I was sure was made of melted tigers).
The Chain has either gone defunct or changed it's name.
Those things weren't monkeys, weasels, OR MULBERRY BUSHES.
If I can mix metaphors, surely I can mix nursery rhymes and
childrens stories of various origins... when I first heard those
stories I had never seen a weasel, a monkey, a tiger, a mulberry
bush or a black person. And yet somehow the stories made sense...
how is THAT for Faith?
Ever hear the one about... Ladle Rat Rotten Hut?
Hint: No teacher would read this story to a child, nowadays.
My sister had a black life-sized infant doll handed down through the
family, known as a "tar baby" referencing the days when white
slaveholding children were allowed to "play" with slaves' babies...
as if they were dolls. I remember when my mother explained how
totally politically incorrect (there was no term for this, it was
just explained as "wrong headed") the whole situation was... until
then, my sister thought it was "just another doll". I lived in a
secluded southwestern rural area where I'd never seen a "person of
color"... well, plenty of Native Americans and descendents of
Spanish Conquistadors, but no African Americans, and no TV either,
though I suppose pictures in Encyclopedias and Nat'l Geographics?
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf
Of Steve Smith
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 5:23 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] faith
Doug -
Congratulations on avoiding another opportunity to become someone's
hood
ornament!
Apropo of nothing, of course, except that I retain my faith that
they
are out to get me when I'm on the motorcycle.
However, for the sake of the Monkey, the Weasel and the Mulberry
bush, I
contend that your use of the world "faith" here aligns with my use
of the
word "Faith" in general and roughly matches what those who I
believe you
revile (or at least chide) do. You (as they) choose a *working
statement* which has no basis in fact (has been refuted or at least
can't be
verified), but which *works well for you* and the *rhetoric* of the
statement plays well within your community (of other riders who
subscribe to
the same Faith).
I think I'm turning to butter.
- Steve
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