arndt@lymph.DEC (01/28/85)
ST. SUPERCILLIA (with a nod to Dorothy L. Sayers) St. Supercillia, born in Paris about the year 1400, was a maiden of remarkable erudition, who stedfastly refused to marry anyone who could not defeat her in open disputation. When the best scholars of all the Universities in Europe had tried and failed, her unworthy father brutally commanded her to accept the hand of a man who, though virtuous, sensible, and of a good estate, knew only six languages and was weak in mathematics. At this, the outraged saint raised her eyebrows so high that they lifted her right off her feet and out through a top-storey window, whence she was last seen floating away in a northerly direction. St. Supercillia is the patroness of Pendants. ------------------ Regards, Ken Arndt
rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) (01/28/85)
Uh..Ken...
I think that's Pedants isn't it ?
Does this make me one ?
Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Pesmard Flurrmn) (01/30/85)
> St. Supercillia, born in Paris about the year 1400, was a maiden of > remarkable erudition, who stedfastly refused to marry anyone who could > not defeat her in open disputation. When the best scholars of all the > Universities in Europe had tried and failed, her unworthy father brutally > commanded her to accept the hand of a man who, though virtuous, sensible, > and of a good estate, knew only six languages and was weak in mathematics. > At this, the outraged saint raised her eyebrows so high that they lifted her > right off her feet and out through a top-storey window, whence she was last > seen floating away in a northerly direction. Correct me if I'm wrong, but does anyone actually recall a time when Ken's logic was NOT defeated in open disputation (as opposed to *Ken's* methods of disputation)? Is Ken threatening to float away if I ask him to marry me? :-) (I'm sure he'd be on Cloud Nine if I did, but I just want to go steady. Besides, the analogy falls through because the only languages I know are C, PL/I, and ... never mind!) > St. Supercillia is the patroness of Pendants. Uh oh. Is Ken threatening to hang himself? (Like a pendant...) If so, isn't this the wrong newsgroup? -- When you're omniscient, everything's a tautology. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr