I don't think so but notice the smiley face. All is forgiven Sent from my iPhone
On May 14, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Merle Lester <[email protected]> wrote: > > is not "trolling" a derogatory word william? > > merle > > > 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 > > > >
