[Chat] lehrer/anglo Saxon

Christine Gray langwidge at erols.com
Sat Mar 24 19:32:53 EDT 2007


Coincidentally, below was just posted on the Anglo-Saxon listserv.

Christine 

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From: ANSAXNET Discussion Forum [mailto:ANSAX-L at LISTSERV.WVU.EDU] On Behalf
Of James M. Pfundstein
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Subject: Re: [ANSAX-L] wyrd and weird

On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Terrill Heaps wrote:

>  "These are all the ones of which the news has come to Hahhvard,  
> and there may be many others, but they haven't been discohhvered."
>
> (And if you recognize the above, you are dating yourself.  :)
>
> Terrill Heaps (off to go poison pigeons, in the park)

Dating oneself: not too much fun. Think of all those one-sided  
conversations!

One of Tom Lehrer's early songs was "Clementine," redone by Mozart, a  
dreadfully hip beatnik, and Gilbert and Sullivan. I wonder what it  
would sound/read if the _Beowulf_-poet had done a stanza?

JM("Morrie's--wherever that may be")P

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