From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1421 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, September 19 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1421 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: The weather and everyone's health [c Karma ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:35:21 +0000 From: c Karma Subject: RE: The weather and everyone's health A little of all three, actually. My daughter Amelia was Eliza in a community theatre production last summer. I came thisclose to posting a link of the scene, but just transcribed it instead. CC > From: mark.travis@frontier.com > To: ckarma@hotmail.com; joni@smoe.org > Subject: Re: The weather and everyone's health > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:28:48 -0700 > > Precisely! > > Either you were involved in a production, have a script or a photographic > memory! > > Mark in Seattle > > -----Original Message----- > From: c Karma > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 7:30 PM > To: joni@smoe.org > Subject: The weather and everyone's health > > Like this???? > > Will it rain, do you think? > > > '"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.'"'"But in Hartford, Hereford > and Hampshire,hurricanes hardly ever happen.'" > How awfully funny. > > What is wrong with that, young man? > I bet I got it right. > > Smashing. > > > Has it suddenly turned chilly? > > > > I do hope we won't have > any unseasonable cold spells. > They bring on so much influenza. > And the whole of our family > is susceptible to it. > > > > My aunt died of influenza, so they said. > But it's my belief they done > the old woman in. > > > Done her in? > > Yes, Lord love you. > Why should she die of influenza... > ...when she'd come through diphtheria > right enough the year before. > Fairly blue with it she was. > They all thought she was dead. > But my father, he kept ladling gin > down her throat. > Then she come to so sudden > she bit the bowl off the spoon. > > Dear me! > > Now what call would a woman > with that strength in her... > ...have to die of influenza? > And what become of her new straw hat > that should have come to me? > Somebody pinched it. > And what I say is: > Them 'as pinched it, done her in. > > Done her in? '"Done her in,'" did you say? > > Whatever does it mean? > > That's the new small talk. > '"To do somebody in'" means to kill them. > > But you surely don't believe > your aunt was killed? > > Do I not? > Them she lived with would have killed her > for a hatpin, let alone a hat. > > But it can't have been right > for your father... > ...to pour spirits down her throat like that. > It might have killed her. > > Not her. Gin was mother's milk to her. > Besides, he poured so much down > his own throat he knew the good of it. > > Do you mean that he drank? > > Drank? My word. Something chronic. > Here, what are you sniggering at? > > The new small talk. You do it so awfully well. > Well, if I was doing it proper, > what was you sniggering at? > > Have I said anything I oughtn't?Not at all, my dear. > > Well, that's a mercy anyhow. > CC"He comes for conversation." - JM ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1421 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------