So beside trolling are you Gilbert or are you Sullivan? :>)
________________________________ From: Joe <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, May 14, 2013 5:40:34 PM Subject: [Zen] Re: "if you meet the buddha kill the buddha" William, Well, ok, lessee, with nothing said the past dozen hours, let it please be very clear, VERY CLEAR, MIND YOU dear!: I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical >From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news (bothered for a rhyme) With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's; I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, (bothered for a rhyme) And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform, And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:c In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a Javelin, and When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat", When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery – In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy – (bothered for a rhyme) You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.e For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century; But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. > Email <brintala@...> wrote: > > So then what does it mean if I say "Joe. You are a paragon of virtue, a man >among men. Your intellect is only surpassed by your good looks and compassion >for all of life. ;<) > > Sent from my iPhone
