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Subject: HERE THERE BE DRAGONS Page 4
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:40:39 -0500
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HERE THERE BE DRAGONS
CORRESPONDING WITH YOUR DRAGON
Of course, dragons love getting letters and E-mails just like the rest
of us.
I have been given permission by the dragons to copy their alphabet so
that you can write your requests to your favorites in their own
language.
This method of communication makes a very favorable impression and
might just sway the decision to grant said request in your favor.
It is best to use a quill pen and write in large letters (older
dragons tend to be a bit nearsighted) on a bit of bark from the birch
tree. Simply place in under your pillow.
These creatures will find those notes when they visit you at night.
For those insomniacs among us, feigning sleep will not work well, as
Dragons know real snores from fake ones.
Do not expect to find a coin under your pillow, as we're talking about
DRAGONS, not the tooth fairy.
Rolfe the Wise
A NOTE OF THANKS AND RESPECT
TO A DEAR FRIEND OF THE DRAGON'S:
Thank you, oh learned one for recently inquiring of Rolf the Wise so
that we might know about the history of the term "curmudgeon."
Now we will properly informed whenever we encounter those aged, ever
so wise elders of the dragon community.
Our friend sent us the following bit of information (op cit from the
taped interview with Rolf the Wise):
"Well, of course, the term is applied today by their wives to elderly
male dragons of diminished, but not extinguished, flame and damaged,
irritated wings.
But it actually derives directly from an obscure Scots Gaelic district
dialectal name, 'Kermin MacDuggan', a legendary valley gillie, of many
locally well-known tales.
The most famous of these is that in which he, by the salmon poaching
of his later, weakening years, offends a stream banshee.
She curses him and secretly fills his trews each pre-dawn with fresh
cut thistles, screaming at him from beyond his walls as he puts the
garment on, 'Fer yer sins, Kermduggan!!'."
"That, in turn," Rolfe goes on, "is thought by many experts to reflect
an even older myth of Pictish origin, now historically lost to us
except in vaguely runeish inscriptions indicating a shadowy, ancient
bridge-guarding ogre (or troll) who sits perpetually on a sharp pointy
stone thinking miserable thoughts, gnawing on bats he has snatched the
night before, and cursing his lot. But, that may be merely
apochraphyl.
" One speculates even older Neandertal figures and stories likely lurk
in the neolithic background."
As you can see, Rolfe is , indeed, very wise.
Lil Stinker
"just havin' fun!"
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