Best of the Fray

Happy dang Thanksgiving, Keifus.

DragonTat2 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:45:57 GMT

And to all, a good night.

Two t's in "Botticelli," young man ...

SpeakerNancy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:50:53 GMT

Other than that, a very well-written & fun escapade. However, personally, my staff and I have always pictured Thy Goddess more as a cross between Queen Victoria and perhaps, say, Cher.

And how totally wonderful, for Fray-damn once, to NOT be included in one of these Fray-centric epics. What a relief!

Re: Fray Bash - A Pilgrim's Progress

Galatea — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:34:23 GMT

I always carry my trusty SureFire™ flashlight with me wherever I go!
You never know when you need to light something up...like this post.
Great story Keifus! I very much enjoyed reading it.

~ Galatea

This little light of mine

jeqal — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:42:23 GMT

let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Well, bless your heart.

bright_virago — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:11:19 GMT

You all are surely the preview of the wonderful men my miscreant smart-as-whips knuckleheaded third grade Sunday School boys will be one day.

Thanks for giving me that.

(Make sure you bring your own table service for the potluck. Meat and cold drinks provided.)

Re: Fray Bash - A Pilgrim's Progress

Artemesia — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:23:20 GMT

Keifus..
I'm delighted if that dark shape you put on my shoulder was an owl! I'm partial to owls..Very mysterious doings in that glade..And the split between the archaic and the now..'Nigh!'

I can be nigh at the drop of a syllable..You gave me the hauteur of a Sitwell!

Many thanks,
A

Re: Fray Bash - A Pilgrim's Progress

Keifus — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:15:07 GMT

If that stuff was easier to fake, maybe I'd have given you more lines.

I didn't realize that the Jesuits weren't in it for Paul. Speaks well of them.

Re: That's an awesome song.

a reasonable man — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:49:58 GMT

Love Beale Street!

A few years ago, when the Batman movie...

Archaeopteryx — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:48:15 GMT

...with Uma Thurman came out, a buddy of mine and I attempted to steal a carboard cutout of Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy from a Taco Bell in Winfield, Alabama.

Now I'm going to have to try to find a carboard cutout of ThyGoddess.

Re: Fray Bash - A Pilgrim's Progress

artandsoul — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:54:23 GMT

Couldn't be more wonderful!!! All of it - totally marvelous!

That's an awesome song.

Archaeopteryx — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:45:37 GMT

Every few months, Mrs. Archaeopteryx and I make the drive up to Memphis to have lunch at the Rendevous, shop, and walk around Beale Street. I wish I had a nickel for every time Mrs. Arch says, "Would you quit singing that song?"

My Fray lawyer is ThyGoddess.

Archaeopteryx — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:42:46 GMT

Is it normal for your lawyer to whip you?

Re: Ignem Mittere in Terram

Demosthenes2 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:12:47 GMT

I’ve spent my life debating with Jesuits and learning the technique from them. Best way to learn to see both sides of the debate… and win.

A Jesuit and a Franciscan sat down to dinner, and pie was served for dessert. There were two pieces of pie, one cut smaller than the other. The Jesuit reached over and took the larger piece for himself. The Franciscan remonstrated, "St. Francis always taught us to take the meaner piece." So the Jesuit replied, "And so you have it!"

Re: Fray Bash - A Pilgrim's Progress

a reasonable man — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:47:39 GMT

Outstanding!

For some reason, this line:

but this evening he is our Everyman, our Christian. He is a reasonable man.

reminds me of the lines from Mark Cohn's Walking in Memphis:

Now Muriel plays piano
Every Friday at the Hollywood
And they brought me down to see her
And they asked me if I would --
Do a little number
And I sang with all my might
And she said --
"Tell me are you a Christian child?"
And I said "Ma'am I am tonight"

Plot? Ha!

skitch — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:32:23 GMT

Of course there's not a plot.

...but there is a sort of internal consistency (if, y'know, you don't actually read it...).