Originally Posted By Lisann22 Confused on Main St., First off, why is Litter calling herself Miss Litter? Did Mr. Litter live the garbage can? Second, there's only one Diva. I'm a very competitive person but even I know when I've been beat. I could never compete against Litter's ability to whine, demand, protest and strip. So never feel you have to chose. When she gets all worked up or you've had enough just come visit with me. I'll be quietly sitting under a tree watching a good softball game drinking a Coke with good swing music playing in the background nibbling a Wetzel Pretzel. ;>
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter <<<I'll be quietly sitting under a tree watching a good softball game drinking a Coke with good swing music playing in the background nibbling a Wetzel Pretzel.>>> Oh, now I have seen it all. Of all the pathetic, manipulative, transparent ploys to win someone's affection! Swing music and softball and Wetzel's Pretzels indeed. You, Lisa, are that most shameful of all divas. . . the diva who tries to pretend she is not. And furthermore, you have insulted the intelligence of friendofdd by thinking such an obvious and completely insincere ploy will win him over. The friendofdd *I* know is far too intelligent to fall for that. And handsome. And sdmirable. And Paul Newman-esque. (By the way, friendofdd, I've ordered a plaque inscribed with your name which I'm having the Disney folks place on a table at Coke Corner in your honor. Just thought I'd mention that. No particular occasion or anything, just another token of my high esteem for you).
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter Um. . . I meant "admirable." Nothing more to see here, move along, move along. . . .
Originally Posted By Lisann22 As an example, see my sentence vs. her entire paragraph plus. Always so over the top. Nothing subtle or underlying about Litter. <dialing a certain swissbreajackfactory>
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter <<<<dialing a certain swissbreajackfactory>>>> Heaven help us, she's speaking in tongues. Take cover, everyone.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<Pixie Glitter Dear FiveBearRugs, 1. I don't know. 2. No, I didn't.>> <<Lisann22: 5BR's "Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!" That's my final answer and YES, a sista always knows where good BBQ is. ;> >> Wow... just look at the difference between the two answers. One answer could be like an authentic, mouth-watering Texas barbecue, and the other answer was Litter's. Speaking of which, I barbecued a whole chicken (cut in half for time contraints) yesterday. I used the indirect method on the Weber (read: charcoal to the sides), and put in some mesquite wood chips, and of course, the briquets were started off in a chimney starter and not with the evil lighter fluid. Ahem. Anyway, the smoke from the mesquite made that chicken so tender; the skin and meat fell off the bones, and when we cut into those halves, it was just full of juice.
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter To borrow the words of my esteemed colleague, Lisann22. . . . um. . .huh? You're babbling, bear. If you don't have a question for us, please don't take up valuable bandwidth. (Wow, that was harsh. I really must be channeling Lisa).
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<Pixie Glitter: (Wow, that was harsh. I really must be channeling Lisa)>> And in California, Lisann is microwaving Hot Pockets...
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Oh Pixie, everyone knows how much I have much l-l-l-lo...for you... much l-l-l-l....
Originally Posted By Ursula AAAHHHHHH, I can't stand it. <1. Why is a raven, like a writing desk?> Well, Poe wrote on both.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Dear L n L, How can I get you both to compete to be in my good graces the way you both compete to be in friendofdd's? Signed, Jilted in Jersey
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter Dear Jilted in Jersey. Gifts, dear. Extravagant, fabulous gifts. Anticipatorially yours, Miss Litter
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Dear Cecil: This is something that drives me crazy every time I hear it: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Is there really a hilarious answer to this seemingly impossible riddle? Or is the hilarious part that there really isn't an answer? Also, where did this riddle originate? --Mary, via the Internet Dear Mary: This riddle is very famous, although it is the rarefied kind of fame that entails most people never having heard of it. It comes from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Alice is at the tea party with the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse, when apropos of pretty much nothing the Hatter pops the question above. Several pages of tomfoolery ensue, and then: "Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. "No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?" "I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter. "Nor I," said the March Hare. Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers." At this point most of us are thinking, ho-ho, that Lewis Carroll, is he hilarious or what? But inevitably you get a few losers who say, well, OK, but I still want to know why a raven is like a writing desk. One sighs wearily. Guys! It's a joke! The answer is that there isn't any answer! Oh, they say. Pause. But why is a raven like a . . . Lewis Carroll himself got bugged about this so much that he was moved to write the following in the preface to the 1896 edition of his book: Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter's Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: *****`Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!' ***** This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all. Did this discourage people? No. They figured, that dope Carroll, he's too dumb to figure out his own riddle, setting aside the halfhearted attempt just quoted. So they ventured answers of their own, some of the more notable of which are recorded in Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice and More Annotated Alice: Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes. (Puzzle maven Sam Loyd, 1914) Because Poe wrote on both. (Loyd again) Because there is a B in both and an N in neither. (Get it? Aldous Huxley, 1928) Because it slopes with a flap. (Cyril Pearson, undated) Not bad for amateurs. But the real answer, to which the careers of Poe and Carroll bear ample testimony, is that you can baffle the billions with both. Postscript: In 1976 Carroll admirer Denis Crutch pointed out that in the 1896 preface quoted above, the author had originally written: "It is nevar put with the wrong end in front." Nevar of course is raven spelled backward. Big joke! However, said joke did not survive the ministrations of the proofreaders, who, thinking they understood the author's intentions better than the author, changed nevar to never in subsequent editions. The indignities we authors suffer! Sure, it's partly made up for by the money and groupies, but still, if in some book (e.g., this one) you come across a line that really clanks, be assured: it was funny before. WHY A RAVEN IS LIKE A WRITING DESK, CONTINUED Dear Cecil: A comment concerning Lewis Carroll's infamous "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" riddle. The best answer I ever heard--and remember that feather pens were a common writing tool of the day, and that writing desks had inkwells--was, "Because they both come with inky quills." --Connor Freff Cochran, via AOL Dear Cecil: I distinctly remember reading in a dumb mid-80s comic book that one answer is, "Because Poe wrote on both." --Raistlin Wakefield, via the Internet Dear Cecil: Back in the 1930s, when I first picked up my mother's dog-eared copy of the works of Lewis Carroll, I asked her why a raven was like a writing desk. She answered with a straight face, "Because you cannot ride either one of them like a bicycle." Since this was true, and it was just as true as saying, "Because neither one of them is made from aluminum," I always thought Mom was right. --Anonymous, via the Internet Cecil replies: So, Mary. (Remember Mary?) You wanted to know whether there was a really hilarious solution to this riddle. Have your answer now? --CECIL ADAMS
Originally Posted By gaydsnywitch To the two Ls, There's a certain "punny" poster that I've met a couple of times in person. Is this safe or should I be afraid that his "punniness" is contagious and avoid him at all cost? Signed, "Punny" phobic
Originally Posted By Ursula Dear L of L&L, I am well versed in Alice in Wonderland as well as the Sandman comics. The latter makes a brilliant homage to the former, and therein is where I take my answer to the riddle. Of course there are so many wrong answers that are right, and vice versa it is my duty to perpetually leave trails wherever I may, so that future humans shall have a field day in research. I thank you for posting your info. The inky quill is also one of my favorites. I suppose it is kind of a literary version of The Aristocrats. Love, Inky Quill
Originally Posted By Lisann22 "Punny" phobic, Just remember "Our LP elders have relative importance" and remember according to Sigmund Freud Puns may be the lowest form of wit (and "therefore the foundation of all wit" according to Henry Erskine) but do they deserve the scorn that has been heaped upon them by their detractors down through the ages? Coleridge allowed that the pun was "harmless... because it never excites envy." Even Sigmund Freud waded in on the topic explaining the pun's lowly stature with the fact that they are "the cheapest- can be made with the least trouble." Leave it to Oscar Levant to astutely point out: "A pun is the lowest form of humor- if you didn't think of it first." :>
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Inky Quill, <<<leave trails wherever I may, so that future humans shall have a field day in research.>>> Are you Sluggo?
