Klarinet Archive - Posting 000655.txt from 1999/05

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Shadow cat & basset clarinet
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:34:01 -0400

Richard Bush wrote,
>>Shadow Cat,
You are the most ungrateful cat on this planet. Who feeds you? Who cleans
your sand box? Who scratches you every night before bedtime? Who read the
Iliad to you? If you had just half a life and not nine, you would be learning
Scrapple to sing on the back yard picket fence. Take your lumps you miserable
cat.>>

Thank you for the compliment, but modesty forbids me to claim to be the most
ungrateful cat on the planet. Others are far more accomplished practitioners
of the fine art of ingratitude than I. But you're right that I cleverly
succeeded in procuring a reasonably industrious pair of humans to wait on me
hand and foot, and for this I do feel a certain measure of pride. However, I
haven't finished training my humans. They lack the proper docility. The way
that female consorts with the Screech-Stick Devil is really intolerable, not
at all appropriate in a well-run household.

Diane Karius, Ph.D., wrote,
>>>Isn't the basset clarinet the most holy of all instruments (since basset
is clearly a human mis-spelling of Bastet)? Why aren't you bothering your
human to go running right out and acquiring one of these most holy of
instruments?>>>

Hmm. This may be mere false etymology, of course, but I shall take the
matter under advisement. The basset clarinet does have a lower range than
the nasty squealer, apparently. Perhaps the Screech-Stick is a devilish
imitation of the basset. You know, this does raise a rather interesting
question about the neighbor's basset hound. Perhaps he was put on earth as
the slave of cats: the lapdog of Bast. I shall raise this question at the
next meeting of the Feline Council....

Shadow Cat
"A cat may look at a king."
May use the grappling hooks on him, too.

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