[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Re: Playing Tennis at Midnight

[emilymaenot]

Darn! 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 You mean, along with my father, Dack, and my sister, Dane?
 

 Opsie... 
 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
wrote:
 
  (On the other hand, speaking of Jersey Shore psychics, when my mother
 was a girl, for a lark she consulted a psychic who held forth in a
 little shack on the Asbury Park boardwalk. The psychic told her that the
 letter J would be very important in her life. As it turned out, my
 father's name was Jack, my sister's name is Jane, and I'm Judy.)
 
 Think how fortunate you are that the psychic didn't tell your mother
 that the letter 'D' would be important in her life. Your name might have
 been Dudy.
 
 :-)

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: Playing Tennis at Midnight

[authfriend]

I wrote:
 (snip)
  And the dreaming mind, because it can't communicate by talking, makes great 
  use of punning 
  and metaphors, sometimes with really obscure wordplay. It's a little like 
  someone trying to 
  explain something in sign language that they have to make up on the spot. It 
  can be startlingly 
  creative but usually in a down-to-earth way.
 

 Charades. That's what it's like, the game of Charades. I knew there was 
something it was very similar to, but I couldn't bring it to mind when I was 
writing the above.