When I was in Freshman Collage English it was the first time in my life of having to be a real student. I couldn’t fake it as I had done with my life so far. I flunked but I got my money’s worth in that I got the lesson loud and clear – they wanted me off the campus.
The second time I took English writing I worked my surviving butt off trying and barely made it. I spent a weekend trying to write a one pager describing something. I could only describe something in ten words or less (you know me). I just about cried when the Professor read the work of the Hippie English Major. It was the most beautiful use of words I had ever heard. He was indeed a wordsmith.
I knew I could never write like that no matter how hard I tried. But what really destroyed my ego was the title he selected that said it all. “The View Of My Bathroom As Seen From My Throne.”
I really think he wrote it there during normal dump time.
I heard that in a follow up writing class he did it again. In my first class we learned about Mark Twain’s book Huckleberry Finn. If my memory serves me right, that was the first book ever written entirely in the local vernacular. The whole book was Louisianan street talk Just before the Civil War.
My classmate said the assignment was to write one stanza of poetry that ended with “Timbuktu”.
The Second Best was:
Across the desert sand crossed the camel caravan. Three by three they marched thru; Destination: Timbuktu.
Hippy English Major was graded the Best with:
Tim and I, a hunting went.
Spied three girls in a tent.
'Cause they be three and we be two,
I bucked one and Tim bucked two.
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During this election I have witnessed the most unusual vetting process held by the Senate ever.
Usually the Cabinet Appointees are nervous and polite, using perfect English the entire time.But not this time. The Nominees are pissed, dedicated to their goals, unstoppable and seem to know the Deep State cannot stop them with the vetting torture. And I saw a lot of vernacular. Pam Bondi was using street talk when she said to Adam Sandler twenty times in response to a question if she had a hit list of persons she was after. After answering with the same answer the entire time she said “I will examen a file and follow the law, in every case.” But then she added “ I think you have already been censured for trying to put words in a witness’s mouth.”
But I really loved when Robert Kennedy Jr. was asked by Elizabeth Warren when she said “Because of your prior statements that the Revolving Door between Government and Big Pharma, will you promise to not accept money from them after your term ends?”
Kennedy was shocked and asked her to repeat the last part of the question, which she did. Then he chuckled and said “If I go after Big Pharma to shut them down, do you honestly think they’re gonna pay me for that?” Now that’s street talk. Warren retreated.
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