Ooh - "VETDOG". I like that. It pretty much sums up all that's evil in the
world to cats, doesn't it? :-)
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From: Elizabeth Finkler [mailto:mightymezzo@h...]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:44 PM
To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vocalist] 'burgering rhenquist' was: Fach horoscopes
(was-Am I a tenor...)
And *this* sounds like a humorous web page I found which translates the
language of cats into "human." It stated that cats have one dire obscenity
which does not translate well, but can be rendered as "VETDOG!"
Me, I've found that snarling "TO HELL WITH IT" works as effectively as any
of the more notorious expressions.
Liz
>From: Greypins@a...
>>
> this thread reminds me of gore vidal's introduction to 'myron'. he
>was
>discussing the obscenity laws and suggested that language was language and
>could not be obscene unless, the words themselves were obscene (like f---
>and
>s--- etc.). so, he decided he would replace those words with the names of
>the supreme court justices and, by doing so, elevate his novel out of the
>obscence and into the sublime.
>
>mike
>
Elizabeth Finkler
San Jose, California
mightymezzo@h...
http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo
" 'Now, you kids help me get all this stuff together. Hurry, hurry, hurry,'
she said, for it was dark then, and she knew that we are bound, one to
another, in licentious benevolence, for only a single day, and that day was
nearly over. She was tired, but she couldn't rest, she couldn't rest."
--John Cheever, "Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor"
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