Re: The Ridgway Announcement

Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> Hey Bill -
>
> With St. Paddy's only two days away, it's
> time for you to paint your spell-checker
> Moffat Green & teach it to use not French,
> but Gaelic — in which language your
> title "High Commander" is spelled "Haich
> O'Mannder" . . . *

> * Note the apostrophe and the second 'n'.
> (And no 'i'.)    

HAICH OMANDIER Wrote:
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> As a curmudgeon that just had his eighty-first
> birthday, I don't need my spelling corrected on
> my Gaelic 101 term paper.  Russo gave me
> that title.

Aye, that 'e did — but IIRC Rhyuss O'Loceaugh spelt yir name "Haich O'Mannder", least tha's what 'e told me!

> Remember, spelling is no gauge of an indiv-
> idual's intelligence.  I remain Bill Gould, AKA
> High Commander.  (How do you spell octo-
> generiumum?). There were less words in the
> dictionary when I went to school.  When I
> was in the brown shoe Air Force I was a
> tail gunner on the Mayflower..


Ye got me beat, Bill -

But I was a boiler feeder on the Titantic, and I be laggin' behind ye by only five wee years, m'self also bein' a member o' the Fraternal Union o' Curmudeonly Geezers – commonly known as the old FUCGers – same as JBWX, Tom G., Roger Wigwam & St. Stephen Four-Knees.   An' don't be takin' a curmudgeonly leprechaun too serious — ain't none of us permanent!  

- Sincerely, Willie  (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)  
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