Arbeiter Fraint

[mariab]

Hey Sleek, love your (season's) greetings. I just learned what a wee dram is, and I'm partial. As for no internet 'til Monday, my email software stopped working a little while ago (while I was emailing Lynn), and gave me a good scare, but after a re-start and some cleanup, it's all gravy. As my poor iBook's over 3 years old and frequently complains about a too loaded HD, it's always in the back of my mind than someday – it might happen. Last time it happened (last year in Paris) I was crying like a baby – publicly. Which might have been a first. A computer crash is truly traumatic. (Obviously not as bad as a serious car crash though, not in a million years. A crash from a 15 feet halfpipe coping? I like. The one that can hurt you is a quarterpipe, but a quarterpipe's one of my favorite objects in the world.)
And a solemn promise: no more highjackings.

[sleekviper]

Hello Maria and Lynn, Hello Tom on Monday. No internet till Monday might require a wee dram more than haggis.

[lynn cates]

AF

Hello Viper and Maria. I emailed Professor Turtletaub today proposing further translations. Right now she is translating a few want ads for me from the AF--you never know.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Hi Sleek. Tom won't have internet access until Monday. I don't think that his 2 issues of AF have been transliterated, but I'm willing to bet that Lynn will ask Dr. Turtletaub to do this soon. There's an old Eduardo Zinna Rip article pertaining to the IWEC which I'm trying to get hold of, and apparently it discusses these 2 issues of AF. I keep hearing intense praise about that article. It's from the Rip as a printed mag era.

[sleekviper]

Hey there Tom. Have the pages that you have been transcribed?

[mariab]

To Lynn Cates:
Some hae meat and canna eat,
and some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
and sae let the Lord be thankit.
By the immortal Rober Burns. (I was tempted to say, by the immortal Robert Lowell, just to see your reaction. Don't be impressed though, Lynn, because I got this on the internet.)

The Grave Maurice wrote:
The Scottish variety is always accompanied with a "wee dram". I'm pretty sure that it is only the dram that makes their haggis palatable.
OK, I might be the worse perv of all, but I severely doubt that what Maurice is referring to here has anything to do with a “wet dream“. It's probably some kind of Scottish beverage – ale or whiskey?
For once a thread's been highjacked and I was NOT involved. Rare as hen's teeth. (Which I almost suspect as the secret ingredient in haggis.)

[The Grave Maurice]

Hi Observer,

Haggis, in your neck of the woods, sounds pretty good. The Scottish variety is always accompanied with a "wee dram". I'm pretty sure that it is only the dram that makes their haggis palatable.

[Observer]

Hi Maurice

Our local fish and chip shop does a lovely haggis coated in batter and deep fried. Sacrilegious I know, but very very tasty

Observer

[The Grave Maurice]

And the haggis?

Not as much. Must be an acquired taste.

[lynn cates]

have a heart

Hello Maurice.

"I had haggis once. In Edinburgh. I enjoyed the city."

Of course. And the haggis?

Cheers.
LC

[The Grave Maurice]

Now, back to mah haggis.

I had haggis once. In Edinburgh. I enjoyed the city.

[lynn cates]

Rabbie Bairns

Hello Maria.

"who was the other poet chap again?"

WHHAATTT? Och, lassie, ye gie me pain! 'Tis none other but Rabbie Bairns.

Now repeat the Selkirk Grace 10 times.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

Alles Gute

Hello Maria. Enjoy, and good luck.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Oh my God, haggis again?! Is next Tuesday like, not Walter Scott's birthday, but who was the other poet chap again? I'm so beat I can't recall.
(I might have fish for dinner later. With fresh spinach. Don't tell Fisherman, as he might get jealous. He's addicted to fish – and to Hutch. ;-))

[mariab]

Lynn,
WOW! Amazing. Thank you so much for directing me to this. I'll look it up more carefully later tonight, need to make a phone call and take care of some work first.