On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Venkat Mangudi <s...@venkatmangudi.com> wrote: > Bonobashi wrote: >> Dear heavens, what a dreadful misunderstanding in the making! >> >> I solemnly aver that I was referring to the resident haunt of the list, a >> close relative of Peeves of legend, who glories in the name of Veritabil >> Deniabiliti. My research shows that this is an Indo-Iranian forest deity >> represented in later English folk-lore and hunting legend as Hereward the >> Wake. VD prowls around the forest glades on the shores of the Caspian Sea, >> snapping up and feasting on laggards from the herds of wild swine found >> there in times of yore. Later, unfortunately, during the prosperous years of >> the Celtic tribes, these proud animals were shipped off by greedy Armenian >> carpet merchants who hadn't discovered carpets to the forests of Armorica. >> There they were the prey of blood-thirsty Gallic warriors banned from battle >> by their ritual uncleanliness at the time of the cutting of the holy >> mistletoe. VD was cut off from his natural prey, lost his corporeal form and >> became a list haunt, a peculiarly foul-smelling bogle who pounces on groups >> of merry-making e-mailers and can be evicted only by the utterance of >> powerful mantras of eldritch force. >> >> Whatever could you have been thinking of? A great diplomatic calamity has >> been averted. >> > You should seriously consider a career in mashups. Nice imagination and > a good mix of PGW, G&U, JRRT... who did I miss?
And all that VD stuff!? Straight out of a public health film shown to navy longshoremen during the war. Thaths -- "You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel." -- Homer J. Simpson
