--- On Sun, 21/12/08, Divya Sampath <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Divya Sampath <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Pet Peeves and Pedantry, was: How Risky Is India?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, 21 December, 2008, 11:58 PM
> --- On Sun, 12/21/08, Bonobashi
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > IG is bonobashi, who happens to be over 200 years
> old.
> > He
> > > is the list Methuselah in chief.
> >
> > Oh, no! You, of all persons? Is nothing sacred?
> >
> > Genesis, Chapter 5, verse 27 (King James version):
> >
> > And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and
> sixty
> > nine years: and he died.
>
> I thought that the _and he died_ part was not really
> applicable yet. Unless there's something you haven't
> shared with the class?
>
> Anyway, perhaps 'Methuselah contender' would have
> been more appropriate. Especially as there seem to be a
> couple of challengers for the title.
>
> Ah, another reason to love Silk-list. This may be the only
> social group that I'm a part of where people would
> actually vie for the 'most superannuated life-form'
> award.
>
> cheers,
> Divya
My latest point of pedantry of course was that a mere 200-year old could hardly
be described as a Methuselah.
Regarding Deepa-di's (hee, hee) bid for pre-eminence, how does it go?
"Some are born great, some achieve it, some have it thrust upon them."
Thaths may be ruled out of contention; grandfatherhood, like fatherhood, is an
accident, whether recognised to be one or no.
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