Re: Out of the ashes. . .

[Carl Glover <glover@msmary.edu>]

Dear Michael,
	How nice of you to mention the Mikado.  Many folks may not know
that the sobriquet "Grand Pooh Bah," the title that many of us writing
center directors have adopted, actually origniated with Gilbert and
Sullivan.
	And the mere mention of your last name reminds me of the elaborate
system that my daughter and I have developed for classifying
Spoonerisms.  In fact, we are the co-founders of the National Center for
the Study of the Spoonerism and are hard on the heels of a fat government
grant.  Perhaps your name would lend credibility to our proposal. 
					Warm regards,


					Carl W. Glover
					glover@msmary.edu

On Tue, 13 May 1997, Michael Spooner wrote:

> Katie, 
> 
> Gosh, your image of pummelling! people! with! exclamation! marks! 
> I'm still seeing spots. (Reminds me of the Mikado's interest in making the 
> punishment not only fit the crime but provide a source of innocent 
> merriment, too.) So did you *know* that in proofer's lore, a nickname for 
> the exclamation point is "bang"? 
> 
> >Latisha LaRue said:
> > . . . should be surrounded by a ring of exclamation marks
> > and plummeted until they see dots instead of periods (ok, so
> > WEathers doesn't say it just that way, but you get the idea).
> 
> You go, La-TEESH-ay.  !
> 
> Michael
> 
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