William, Good One! You're on a roll! ...Bill!
--- In [email protected], William Rintala <brintala@...> wrote: > > So beside trolling are you Gilbert or are you Sullivan? :>) > > Â > > > > ________________________________ > From: Joe <desert_woodworker@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, May 14, 2013 5:40:34 PM > Subject: [Zen] Re: "if you meet the buddha kill the buddha" > > Â > 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 â" > In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy â" (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 > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
