Re: OT: A Plea (was OT everything)

Peter Clark scripsit:

>         So tell me, oh List Lord, what sacrifices must I offer? (I'm running a little
> low on virgins, but I've got a couple of old laptops that I need to get rid
> of, will that suffice?)
The operative word is not "Lord" < OE hlaf-weard 'bread-keeper', but
"Instrumentality".  I am the instrument of the list, that's all.
I can ban particular persons, but I can't make the list shut up as a whole
except by jawboning -- which in this case would be singularly hypocritical
of me.

ObOT: Cordwainer Smith was an Episcopalian, and "instrumentality" is a
technical term in E. theology....

John Cowan, Lord of the Instrumentality of Conlang.
--
A witness cannot give evidence of his           John Cowan
age unless he can remember being born.          jcowan@reutershealth.com
  --Judge Blagden                               http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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