[1582] in Humor
HUMOR: Keeping it in perspective
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 30 10:38:47 1996
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:26:27 EDT
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 23:01:14 -0800
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:50:03 -0600
From: qotd-request@ensu.ucalgary.ca (Quote of the day)
"What a lot we had found out about the prehistoric past from the study
of fossilized dung of long-vanished animals. . . . And in the Middle
Ages, how concerned people who lived close to the world of nature were
with the faeces of animals. And what a variety of names they had for
them: the Crotels of a Hare, the Friants of a Boar, the Spraints of an
Otter, the Werderobe of a Badger, the Waggying of a Fox, the Fumets of
a Deer. Surely there might be some words for the material so near to
the heart of Ozy Froats better than shit? What about the Problems of a
President, the Backward Passes of a Footballer, the Deferrals of a
Dean, the Odd Volumes of a Librarian, the Footnotes of a Ph.D., the Low
Grades of a Freshman, the Anxieties of an Untenured Professor? As for
myself, might it not appropriately be called the Collect for the Day?"
- Robertson Davies, from _The Rebel Angels_
Submitted by: Kathleen Magone <magone@selway.umt.edu>
May 5, 1996
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