Word For The Day: Xenophobe

 

1. True, but sometimes you can be personally clean but the little critters hitchike on you.  Head lice don’t care about how dirty or clean your head is. Don’t know if these guys are like that. I fail to see how we can keep ‘em off our shores.

   Posted by Oink       02/03/2006  at  05:14 PM  



2. Simple, Oink.  Don’t let the bipedal visitors bring their pets.

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       02/03/2006  at  06:34 PM  



3. I suspect it’s the people—we are already more careful about protecting our animals from communicable disease.

   Posted by Oink       02/03/2006  at  07:05 PM  



4. I didn’t mean that kind of pets, Oink.  I meant the kind that are illustrated above.

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       02/03/2006  at  07:15 PM  



5. Ha! whare ye gaun’ ye crowlin ferlie?
   Your impudence protects you sairly;
   I canna say but ye strunt rarely
   Owre gauze and lace,
   Tho faith! I fear ye dine but sparely
   On sic a place.

   Posted by StinKerr       02/03/2006  at  11:23 PM  



6. I always thought of you as a louse, Bobby.

   Posted by Oink       02/03/2006  at  11:42 PM  



7. It was as close as I could get for the occasion. I didn’t think that “Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,” was appropriate.

   Posted by StinKerr       02/04/2006  at  06:51 AM  



8. And I meant to say his poetry is lousy.

   (Kerr & OINK sit rapt, watching a spider attempting spin its web for the sixth time. They gather encouragement that they will learn to express themselves properly one day. The spider gives up in disgust.)

   Posted by Oink       02/04/2006  at  07:30 AM  



9. Peotry is a matter of taste, I suppose, and I’m not qualified to judge. It’s not something that I ... er ... fully appreciate.

   I do like the last stanza of that poem, though:
   

   O wad some Power the giftie gie us
   To see oursels as ithers see us!
   It wad frae monie a blunder free us
   An foolish notion:
   What airs in dress an gait wad lea’es us,
   An ev’n devotion!

   Posted by StinKerr       02/04/2006  at  07:58 AM  



10. A great verse and so true.  I considered Burns’ style to be Ebonics dressed in kilts.

    Posted by Oink       02/04/2006  at  09:04 AM  

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