Re: OT: Pogo, is you dere?

From: "Julia Rankin" <breckenridge@bnis.net>

Dear Anner,

I very much enjoyed your interjections.  would that Clarence were still
among us!  Would that doggerel still rode high in the world of iris!


Julia Rankin
Zone 8/9
So. California
breckenridge@bnis.net
-----Original Message-----
From: HIPSource@aol.com <HIPSource@aol.com>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 7:12 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] 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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