Posted on 07/02/2005 10:28:00 AM PDT by orange_agent
Ping to more festivities!
I started outwalking him, mulling over the way he had thrown in these specific details, the eighteen hundred dollars and Acapulco, after the manner of Wordsworth, who would be off in the middle of some lyric passage about the woods and the glades, God, Freedom and Immortality, when his glorious delicatessen owner's love of minute inventory would overwhelm him and he could not help recording that the little girl who appeared on the bridge over the brook, a vision of love's own nostalgia, was exactly seven and a half years old, or like Dickens, who-when this train of thought was broken by the second bum, and the old scrime with a flaky face, who came up and asked me for something or other.
This time I tried something that had always worked in Washington, D.C., when the winos climbed Meridian Hill, I threw my hands up and started talking in a gibberish approximation of French, like Danny Kaye in the old git-gat-gittle days, the idea being that I didn't speak English and therefore didn't know what I was saying. So the guy just stares at me for a moment and says, "O.K., since you're a ________ foreigner who don't speak English, then why don't you go ---------hat, you ----------."
Well, he had me there. What could I do? Announce that I only understood the swear words? A real big-league bum who had to let me know this town has the kind of bums you don't put anything over on.
-excerpted from "The Big League Complex," of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
heh heh
Catholicism WOW!!
LOL
Just wait until you see what the government does to those who have homes after what the Supreme Court did last week.
Survival tactics. My son used to ride a public bus through Watts. H said he just acted crazy and everyone left him alone.
Fierce Warlike tribe bump!
LOL!
I've never pursued the whole Danny Kaye routine though.
I pretend to be asleep.
:0)
THAT'S IT, YOU'RE GONE!!!
Holiday weekends. Prime Zot season.
Do you like Tater Tots?
America is the most generous country in the world. Instead of criticizing America, go and live in a socialist country where they should supposedly care more for the homeless and see what's going on over there. You won't find another country where they treat homeless people better than in America. Even the homeless dogs in America have better life than some people in other countries. Would you be a little more thankful for this country?
Thanks! Great to see you, too!
Here ya go!
Trolls have Reincarnation.
Who knew?
LOL!
We're helping tehir karmic debt be as negative as it can be.
Next he'll be a fruit fly.
;-)
"The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby"
Lol. A blast from the past! I haven't thought about that book in years. (dare I say decades?)
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