Louis Diemschutz

[Tom_Wescott]

Sam's good peepage is not in question as he's one of my favorite Casebookers. He just gets a bit ahead of himself when it comes to his Orthopedics.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Robert]

Yes, Gareth is "good peeps" and I haven't seen him plagiarizing anything. Not so with Sam, who often publishes things originally found by Gareth.

[Cap'n Jack]

Well, Robert I think Gareth should sue Sam with undue haste, and Dan should send me a large case full of his rags which he is trying to sell on Amazon just in case they fit the gaps under my doors, and Tom, well, Tom, should get a slouch hat, grow a handle-bar and see if he can't affect an American accent.
If I had to make a choice, I'd say that Sam was 'im.
'e claims to be Welsh but I aint 'eard 'im sing.

[Robert]

AP, Gareth likes Wagner, so maybe he isn't Welsh after all.

[Cap'n Jack]

Ah, that explains everything, Robert, for Mark Twain said that Wagner was like toothache.

[Robert]

I have to agree with Twain, AP.

[The Grave Maurice]

Phooey, I say. Excuse me for the rest of the afternoon while I go listen to Solti's 1987 recording of Lohengrin.

[Tom_Wescott]

Robert Wagner's cool. He's in the Austin Powers movies.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Robert]

Was that his mum who did the pies Simon and Garfunkel sang about?

[Cap'n Jack]

To the tune of 'sounds of silence', Robert.

'Steak and kidney I 'ave 'ad
mushy peas not so bad
then I found a chicken and sweetcorn
felt my self completely reborn
but in the sound of deep fried fat
found I'd lost my slouch hat
and battered in the grounds of batter
for a lonely sole
without a plaice
in the grounds of batter
but then I saw a cod
lonely cod
and found an egg, in the grounds of violence
so I mixed 'em in
and had a gin
and shivered in the sounds
of violence.
Dear old pollack I'll see you again.
(bet you could never guess who has been drinking tonight?)

[Robert]

Er - surely not you, AP?

In restless dreams Jack walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
When he was struck down by a cold batter pudding

[Chava]

Can't help you on much else, but I know what the 'Watchers Society' probably is. And that would be an Anglicization of the word 'Wacher' and the society in Hebrew would be known as the Chevra Kadisha. The Chevra Kadisha--or 'holy society' is the group who look after burial of the dead. According to Jewish custom, the corpse is taken to a Tahara House where it is ritually washed and dressed, and it stays there overnight. However the corpse cannot be left alone, so a member of this group known as a Wacher or Watcher sits beside it to guard it from any kind of desecration. The next day is the funeral, and it is my understanding that the Wacher stays with the corpse through the night and up to the funeral. It's a very important and sacred trust, so the Chevra Kadisha is made up of extremely trustworthy and observant people. Men will take care of men, women will take care of women. The Chevra Kadisha take on all the responsibilities of the funeral so that the bereaved don't have to make decisions etc at a time of extreme pressure.

[The Good Michael]

selbstverstandlich.

Cap'n,

You needed an umlaut over the "a".


Good, Helpful Michael

[Sam Flynn]

But, anyway... if nothing else you've demonstrated yet again why people should treat any claim you make very skeptically.

As they should treat any claim by anyone, one would hope, Dan - as long as that scepticism is healthy, that is, and not vindictive.

I've always found that the phrase "Trust, but verify" useful at work (it's my department's motto) and see no reason why such a principle shouldn't apply elsewhere. In this case I myself verified, found an earlier position of my own was in error, and notified y'all. Why you believe that my doing so should single me out for special scepticism defeats me - I'd have thought that such an action demonstrated the reverse - but you're welcome to think so.

[Sam Flynn]

Sam's good peepage is not in question as he's one of my favorite Casebookers. He just gets a bit ahead of himself when it comes to his Orthopedics.

I agree, good Sir Tom. Although I have to say that I only suffered from an overbite when I was a kid. (Oops! That's orthodontics... my bad!).