Re: It's so quiet.

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:33:21 -0500, Alan Brand
<alan.brandATsymp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:10:15 GMT, Stuart Rogers
><stuart.rogers.clara.co.uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On 10/11/06 15:01, "Ken Butler" wrote:
>>> On 9 Nov 2006 22:38:21 -0800, "Michael" <spoonermichael@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>> 
>>>> One can almost hear a pin drop.
>>> 
>>> If a pin drops in the woods, does a bear hear it?
>>> 
>>> Ken, offering the warning that AlanB will soon be back.
>
>Here I am 
>
>... and a big Thank You Kindly to Ken for sorting me out with a
>working newsfeed while he and Amy were visiting Chez [WOCAB] Brand
>
>>
>>If AlanB falls over in the wood, would he be too drunk to hear it?
>>
>
>Oi, I resemble that remark.
>
>As it happens, I fell over in the wood just the other day - early
>Friday afternoon, it was - I was stumbling up a very steep pathway
>alongside a waterfall in some old growth forest on Vancouver Island
>when a perfectly nice dog called Buddy decided to run through me.

I was going to ask if you had turned into an apparition, and then the
light bulb went on.


>Previously, All I'd had was a perfectly healthy, West Coast Hippie
>Dippie, lunch of fruit and vegetables (a hot apple cider and a large
>piece of carrot cake) - the Guinness and red plonk was at dinner,
>followed by 23 hours of sleepless travel to get home. I haven't
>recovered yet. 

Hot cider and carrot cake- ummm.  It *is* getting to that time of
year, isn't it? We have this restaurant here that serves hot cider and
pumpkin cheesecake. Bur carrot cake is just as good.

KS