OFF TOPIC, was Re: Ship Naming Convention (was: RE: What, no messages?)

> Doug_Evans/CSN/UNEBR@UNebMail.UNeb.EDU wrote:

> Rob Paul wrote:

> cheers,

which unfailingly makes me think of a famous song:

"The Welshman's dishonest, he cheats when he can;
is little and dark - more like monkey than man.
He works underground with a lamp in his hat
and he sings far too loud, far too often - and flat!"

(Flaunders&Swann)

I don't agree with this description, except of course the last line (having
attended the Llangollen Eisteddfod for five years in a row makes it hard
not to ;-) )

which unfailingly makes me think of a famous song: "The Welshman's dishonest,
he cheats when he can;
is little and dark - more like monkey than man.
He works underground with a lamp in his hat
and he sings far too loud, far too often - and flat!"
(Flaunders&Swann) I, for one, certainly object to the flat part! Course, that
could be just the precise German in me.

As for the rest, well, don't walk around with a lamp on me head, but, after 20
years in a mainframe computer machine room, no windows, might as well be
underground. As for the cheating part, always have your own ruleset handy
when playing me. :->=

Back to FT: could I see, either on the list or directly, more of those
bashed-Cymru names? I know my address looks hideous, but devans@uneb.edu
works as well.

As for Celts, wasn't the original Keltoi term Greek in origin? Perhaps
Mycenean, which was when my ancestors were the falsely stereotyped as backward
indigenous people? What goes around...

The_Beast

P.S. To further confuse the 'scalping' issue, I seem to recall some Native
American cultures would open scalps, and skulls, to allow a warrior's spirit
freedom after death. If this is apocryphal, usual deepest apologies, followed
by skulking into the corner.