Pity the fool who writes about me!Sometimes I reference real people in this blog directly.
IG appears from time to time, and is usually addressed as such.
So if I was to say that IG once uttered the following pick-up line to a beautiful Ski- bunny, whilst extremely drunk in a posh Queenstown Bar;
"Heeeelllllooooo.....(long pause)..... do you ski?"
"Yes" - said ski-bunny replied (in awe that he could still talk, one imagines)
"Uphill?", IG asked inquisitively.... (which of course is an absolutely brilliant next line in my opinion).
then you know that it was indeed IG that said those words.
But when I mention "Pasta in the Pot" - I did not in anyway infer or imply that the poem was about IG.
In fact - I'm surprised that you could think such a thing.
No wonder IG was so outraged, when I talked to him in the weekend.
So IG, to thee I offer this apology.
Dearest IG,
For this slight upon your fine character, I hereby resolve to let you win the first three pool games at the Pool House Cafe, when I am next down in Dunedin pontificating on my Uncleship.
You know how hard this will be for me....
As I am a pool god, and you are mostly not :)
Looking forward to visiting soon - much cruising in the Merc, one suspects!!!
MJ.
5 comments:
shame on you marcus.... the poem was brilliant... although was titled shakespeare and the pasta in the pot... and so for an exhorbitant amount of money i will return youu the original ... but not the ode to typing or knitting! :) :)
Fonmeister!
You really need to meet North Finchley Girl. Although there is a worrying possibility that you guys will simply swap poems and generally humiliate me by reading them aloud - it would be good to see what I wrote many years ago.
Usage Note: Infer is sometimes confused with imply, but the distinction is a useful one. When we say that a speaker or sentence implies something, we mean that it is conveyed or suggested without being stated outright: When the mayor said that she would not rule out a business tax increase, she implied (not inferred) that some taxes might be raised. Inference, on the other hand, is the activity performed by a reader or interpreter in drawing conclusions that are not explicit in what is said: When the mayor said that she would not rule out a tax increase, we inferred that she had been consulting with some new financial advisers, since her old advisers were in favor of tax reductions.
I stole that last bit from a Dictionary site - isn't the English language interesting sometimes?
What a good friend you are...
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