Re: OT: Pogo, is you dere?

From: HIPSource@aol.com

In a message dated 98-10-17 20:46:52 EDT, you write:

<<  More full of life a list couldnt be, what more do you demand?  Please
enlighten me, what does Pogo mean?  >>

Maj,

For reasons still unknown I stopped receiving any mail from the list. I was
receiving all my other e-mail fine, but no list. I wrote to friends to see if
they were getting list mail and one was not sure and one answer got lost in
transit and I did not receive it. I tried to go to the Archives to see if
there was anything posted there that I had not received, but the Archives
would not open for me, although I had no difficulty with the rest of the Web.
Since only irises issues seemed to be a problem, I decided to send a test post
to see if it would come back to me. It did not, but several friends saw it and
were kind enough to tell me that the list was fine and the problem was on my
end. 

Now, Pogo is a wise creature from an American comic strip. He is an opossum, a
creature we have discussed here before. American opossums have fierce teeth
but they have poor eyesight and so they have interesting defense mechanisms.
One is to pretend to be dead, or sick, so that predators will not eat them.
Another is to hiss mightily, showing those teeth. Pogo does not hiss, really,
he says enlightened things. One of his more famous utterances is "We have met
the enemy and it is us." Many American people remember this saying from time
to time.

So there it is. I was simply sending a test post to see if it would go through
and if it would return to me, which it did not. No comment on the list culture
as such was being made. 

To head off any further confusion, let me say that the Clarence in question in
my other recent OT post on Clarence and Poetry is Clarence Mahan, President of
the American Iris Society, who was a member of the list in the early days.
Clarence adored poetry of all types and was a very spontaneous and playful
fellow. We miss him. Once, at Clarence's instigation,  some of us spent a good
deal of time playing with the word "puce" in relation to irises and poetry.
"Puce" is a dull brownish purple and a silly word. The poetry was pretty
silly, too. I know this because I wrote some of it.

Sorry to have befuddled you, or anyone else. Delighted to hear you are still
with us.

Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com


 



 

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