--- On Tue, 24/3/09, Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Introduction - New Member
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 24 March, 2009, 4:06 PM
> Bonobashi wrote:
> > Dear heavens, what a dreadful misunderstanding in the
> making!
> >
> > I solemnly aver that I was referring to the resident
> haunt of the list, a close relative of Peeves of legend, who
> glories in the name of Veritabil Deniabiliti. My research
> shows that this is an Indo-Iranian forest deity represented
> in later English folk-lore and hunting legend as Hereward
> the Wake. VD prowls around the forest glades on the shores
> of the Caspian Sea, snapping up and feasting on laggards
> from the herds of wild swine found there in times of yore.
> Later, unfortunately, during the prosperous years of the
> Celtic tribes, these proud animals were shipped off by
> greedy Armenian carpet merchants who hadn't discovered
> carpets to the forests of Armorica. There they were the prey
> of blood-thirsty Gallic warriors banned from battle by their
> ritual uncleanliness at the time of the cutting of the holy
> mistletoe. VD was cut off from his natural prey, lost his
> corporeal form and became a list haunt, a peculiarly
> foul-smelling bogle who pounces on groups
> > of merry-making e-mailers and can be evicted
> only by the utterance of powerful mantras of eldritch
> force.
> >
> > Whatever could you have been thinking of? A great
> diplomatic calamity has been averted.
> >
> You should seriously consider a career in mashups. Nice
> imagination and
> a good mix of PGW, G&U, JRRT... who did I miss?
I had rather hoped that the phrase master wordsmith would have floated through
your mind. It didn't? <I Sigh, in a pig's eye> to quote an old Romany rhyme.
The answer is Samit Basu.
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