Klarinet Archive - Posting 000214.txt from 2003/12
From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> Subj: Re: [kl] Re: 10 worst Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:30:58 -0500
Ken Wolman wrote:
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> Dan Leeson wrote:
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>> But I kept my honor.
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> I hereby nominate Dan for the year's funniest posting on Klarinet. "But
> I kept my honor"! Why do I feel like I'm back in Don Corleone's study
> while the undertaker is telling Brando his tale of woe? Probably
> because that's the reference? I'm lucky now when I lived not so far
> away, in Lyndhurst, that I didn't have the chutzpah (or coglioni) to
> take the horn out in the street. I might have been dropped into the
> Passaic River, bada-bing....
>
> Ken
Ken, let me remind you about the Passaic River which runs through
Paterson where I grew up. On the shores at the west end of the city
were dye mills where cloth, also produced in Paterson, was given color.
The dye vats were invariably poured into the Passaic river when they
needed cleaning and I would fish there when the river was bright yellow,
green, or flaming red. People got cancer and liver diseases from eating
the fish from that water. Nobody swam in it and lived very long. I just
put the fish I caught (those that were alive) back into the river.
Today on the Sopranos, they will occasionally shoot at a location called
"The Passaic River Falls." It was originally seen by Alexander Hamilton
as a power source for the region. But I would see that falls come down
purple, and chartruse.
Ah, ecology!!
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Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net
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