[2111] in Humor
HUMOR: but we prefer the term "snug"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 12 09:50:53 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:47:50 EDT
From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 01:12:40 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
>From: "Jonathan E. D. Richmond" <Jonathan_Richmond@Harvard.edu>
>
>
>What to do at 1 am when it is far too hot (94 degrees today!) to do any
>work but the need to at least pretend to continuing wading through reams
>of inscrutable data requires continued awakenness?
>
>Well, The Times is already on-line, even if Britain is still asleep, and
>here's another sample from its letters to the Editor:
>
>
>
> Fitting send-off
>
> From Mr Frank Kilvington
>
> Sir, In her article on changing burial customs (June 4), Grace
> Bradberry implies that the use of coffins as articles of
> furniture is a modern development.
>
> John Cussans, in his own copy of his History of
> Hertfordshire published in the 1870s (now in Hertfordshire
> County Record Office), has added the case of William
> Jones, vicar of Broxbourne until his death in 1821, who
> ordered his coffin some 12 years before and had it fitted with
> shelves to form a bookcase.
>
> Unfortunately the reverend gentleman put on weight in those
> years and at his death a local carpenter had to be summoned
> to enlarge the coffin. "But it was a proper tight fit, Sir, I tell
> yew," was the comment of the old man who told Cussans the
> story.
>
> Yours faithfully,
> FRANK KILVINGTON,
> 122 Marshalswick Lane,
> St Albans, Hertfordshire.
> June 6.
>
>
>
> Still electable?
> From Mr David Smithers
>
> Sir, An outsider's view of the passion and rhetoric of our
> domestic politics comes in a letter from a Romanian friend.
>
> He asks: "Now that you have chosen your new Government
> in Great Britain, can we have the one you didn't want?"
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> DAVID SMITHERS,
>
> Silver How, Groombridge,
>
> Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
>
