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Subject: Re: QUID$DITCH here, reporting for dooty.
From: darkshadows <here@there.net>
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"quid$ditch" <On-loan-from@hogwarts.com> wrote in
news:Xns9B75E87142D3Aq23@193.202.122.132:
> Yep, fellow Fortsters, heralded for a month or so, I have finally
> arrived & to prove it... this is me.The call, when it came, caught me
> unawares. I'd been to town to collect a tandoori takeaway & it was
> bloody gridlock. Fact I was actually banging my head rhythmically in
> frustration against the steering wheel when The Wiz came through loud
> & clear on my Bluetooth earpiece.
>
> Seems I've hit the Big Time, then. That's Life. Things happen, it's
> what things do. If the fates had differently conspired, I might just
> as easily have been re-incarnated as an Orange Pip...were it not, of
> course, that merit in the end always wins through. As was once
> memorably observed:-Some are born great, some achieve greatness, &
> some have greatness thrust upon them. So all you lesser mortals out
> there, don't give up hope. As a friend of mine was wont to point out,
> no one can make you feel inferior without your consent....& he stole
> that from Eleanor Roosevelt...& she too hit the Big Time.
>
> Some of you, understandably, may well wonder where I'm coming
> from....& have I any previous. Well,that WOULD be telling! What with
> the IWF, the FBI & the CIA all with their complimentary ringside seats
> in loving attendance here, not to speak of the legions of
> cross-posting spammers, ignorance & stupidity sadly being high among
> the World's Renewable Resources..... Still I can reasonably assure
> the diggers & the delvers that my credentials are impeccable. Good
> God, I was ink monitor & milk monitor at my school & all my teachers
> were exceedingly fond of me, so much so that...oh, I'm ignoring my own
> cautions.... besides forgetting that I'm now more of a rumpled
> Dumbledore than the frisky young dolphin from that fast-fading
> hinterland of childhood where we spent each shining hour racing around
> chirruping like robins in spring.
>
> Enough! Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived
> forwards. Then farewell The Wiz....Barkis is willing.
>
> So Goodbye for now every peoples and I will write again whenever.
>
> In the meantime-
>
> You just call out my name,
> And you know wherever I am
> Ill come running,
> Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
> All you have to do is call
> And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
>
> Your 'umble servant,
>
> quid$ditch
Please add my welcome to the list.
May you do Wiz proud in filling his shoes.
And I sure as hell hope you are a better aim with that wand than was
Wiz. Doc's credit card can't afford too many more repairs to the Fort
Meeting Hall.
darkshadows
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