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To: Crocodile who wrote (51379)	5/28/2000 10:27:00 AM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I tend to prefer dry or wry humor. So I particularly enjoyed hearing a 50ish Englishwoman speak recently. She was a British columnist until she upgraded to Texan 20 years ago when she met a Texas man on an airline flight and married him 2 weeks later. She spoke for about an hour on the general subject of the last 100 years of the royal family. The humor came in colloquialisms that "sound funny" and the phrasings and voice inflections that are unique to the English. And no, E, I can't give specific examples that would "translate" effectively here. <g>

To: Crocodile who wrote (51379)	5/28/2000 1:07:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Man, I love reading this stuff. You're kind of a tidbit Person too. Maybe we here are all tidbit People. Oooooh ~ our tribe. "Down there, are the Tidbits." Matter of fact, we are some of the tid-bittiest people I know. Definitely. It's stuff. Our stuff. Our toys. Man, It's too bad I haven't been getting enough sleep lately, because there are all kinds of things happening ~ pace has really picked up here; and enjoyment too. We keep finding things to bring home, too. And the seed-drill part, you sent? (Drill "bit," one of the tid bits). I spent oh - twenty minutes last night at 2:30 AM looking at it. It was contemplation man. Lost World. The drill, again drillbit, that Norton brought over? I gotta get that on film for you. I know you know what it looks like, but there's so much aesthetic in it you gotta see it sitting. Speaking of Cleopatra, this is an odd coincidence, because when I was outside looking at this bit in it's current spot, yesterday, I thought, "It looks like a Roman era African (Nile) coiffure." You'll see exactly what I mean. It's elaborate hair rolls, in a certain profile. But it's tri cornered. Chapeau bras. From a certain viewing aspect. Very, very, elegant. Super, super, elegant. Nile-ish. Lotiform. Dash called me to talk about rust. (Well, and some design problems he's working on. We are. Man, that is exciting, too. We are good at it.) And Techie has located ANOTHER SOURCE of diesel cylinder sleeves! Woah cosmic. I've never seen them outside these, and now a second cache has popped up, within three weeks of when I gave one to Techie to prototype. And there's still the aeolian rusty piece up at the lumber camp. Sorry. Get all excited. Well, these are my toys. I'm a toy boy. Yah ~ Cleopatra's head dress. It's very Cleopatrine, Norton's drillbit. With a golden-dusting of Nubia. It's been raining for about two weeks. Maybe longer. We are nowhere near de-mudded. This climate, I swear it, should be documented. Like ultra-cold climates, it is not well-comprehended. And it's far the toughest I've seen. Of course, I have intention of going to the Arctic.