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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (32548)	7/19/1999 6:54:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

Hey guy, I'd have promoted you in a heart beat but you got legal represention. Now you need to have her file a petition.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (32548)	7/19/1999 9:14:00 PM
From: melinda abplanalp	Respond to of 71178

Lol eom

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (32548)	7/19/1999 9:54:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Fudge to you, Lather. You never were a member of our "Guild," that is, our Order of Hobo Poets/Wandering Scholars (Goliard Subgenus). We are ANARCHISTS, bohemians, mockers of all authority. No authoritarians and no suck-ups allowed. Besides, you don't know any Latin, and, so far as I know, do not worship Decius (the God of Dice). Please note the following passages from the Rules of our Order (Cum in Orbem Universum), translated into the vulgar English: ...We receive the shaven skull Gladly as the hairy; When a priest elopes or monk Bolts the monastery; Boys from school and masters too, Parsons, clerks -- we're flattered! But your scholar is our prize, Clad in robes untattered. Righteous or unrighteous, we In our corps enlist them. Lame and feeble, brave and strong, All alike subsist them; Some are in the flower of youth, Some with age are stricken, Some are cold at heart, and some, Warmed by Venus, quicken. ......................... Of the vagrant order's laws, These are fundamental: Generous must we be in life, In demeanor gentle; Also we must love a roast, Dripping unctuous juices, More than pecks of barley-meal, Fit for a hermit's uses. Matins next our rules forbid, Fie on early waking! Eerie phantoms always prowl, Just as day is breaking. Causing visions that entail Direful consequences; He who rises with the dawn Hardly has his senses. ....................... Last, our order interdicts All superfluous clothing. One who sports an overcoat We must view with loathing. Let him pledge his needless wrap, At the shrine of Decius, Soon his vest will follow, too, Till the dice-cups rattle. ......................... None must ever take the road When the wind's contrary, Nor present a doleful face If his prospects vary. Let him keep a cheerful heart, Hopes are sure to brighten, When the sky is darkest, then It can only lighten. Give to any folk you meet Reasons for your questing, As that men's peculiar ways Seem in need of testing: "Probity from pravity Seeking to unravel, Reprobates to reprobate, That is why I travel. "Reprobare reprobos et probos probare, et probos ab improbis veni segregare."