Re: October Bulletin Cover

David Silverberg wrote:
> 
> J. Griffin Crump wrote:
> >
> > Walter A. Moores wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >         Don't think you or any other lister would want to hear me sing an
> > > aria from an opera as a prize  though!!!
> > >
> > >         "Oh, I'll twine with my mangles and my raven black hair,
> > >         With the roses so sweet and the lilies so fair....."
> > >
> > >          Now, who wrote or sang that, Griff?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > You've got me, Walter. . . it could be Flanders and Swann. 
> > Griff
> 
> Flanders and Swann?? I didn't think anyone remembered them, except maybe
> Brad Kasperek. (I'm a Gnu, agnother gnu.....etc) I mention their names
> and people look at me like I have two heads. I was beginning to think it
> had something to do with being a Canadian, and that they weren't known
> in the US. Sure am glad to see someone else knows their names.
> 
> Nancy Silverberg,
>

Nancy -- I gnu someone would recognize those two maestros of the
farrago! I think what connected them in my mind (falsely) to Walta's
ditty was the twining. You will probably recall their ballad of the
bindweed, in which the male of the star-crossed pair twined to the right
and the female to the left and never the twine did meet -- or something
to that effect. I lost my only copy of F&S's AT THE DROP OF A HAT many
years ago to a pretty but rather strange girl with whom I was trying to
get a date. I loaned her the album, but got neither the date nor the
album back. Any fisherman who has ever had his hook cleaned will
recognize the scenario.

Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA, where three
days of sub-freezing nights have given way to a rainy weekend, zapping
the plans to remove the leaves etc. from the iris beds.  Obviously,
global warming is to blame.  jgcrump@erols.com
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