[bksvol-discuss] Re: too darned funny! ;-))
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:29:13 -0700 (PDT)
Funny indeed. lol
Cindy
--- Dan Beaver <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am back to validating again. I got access to MS
> Word again so I am back off the chocks.
>
> I am validating the book All things Herriot. It is
> about the life of James Alfred Wight who was the
> real vet. He sure did a wonderful job of creating
> all the characters and places and events in his
> books.
>
> While working through this book I came across a
> passage that just shook my tree and I fell over
> cackling. Read it below and I hope you all find
> this histerical too.
>
> New characters enrich the text. The portrait of Mr.
> Pickersgill is a
> classic study in malapropism worthy of any
> eighteenth-century comedy or
> of a Dickens character. If a little learning is not
> always a dangerous
> thing, it is often a funny thing. Farmer
> Pickersgill, a good stocksman
> with a small herd, once attended a two-week course
> of instruction for
> agricultural workers at Yorkshire's Leeds
> University. "This brief
> glimpse of the academic life had left an indelible
> impression on his
> mind. . . . No capped and gowned don ever looked
> back to his years among
> the spires of Oxford with more nostalgia than did
> Mr. Pickersgill to his
> fortnight at Leeds".
> Pickersgill's vocabulary has slipped
> since his long ago "college days." He phones Herriot
> from the "cossack"
> in the village to treat a calf for "semolina,"
> meaning salmonella. The
> animal is bleeding from the "rectrum," and the
> farmer wants a feces
> sample sent to the "labrador," although he is
> convinced that the calf's
> problem is due to the fact that the animal bled at
> birth from its
> "biblical" cord. Pickersgill does not want to be
> charged an "absorbent"
> price and he knows from experience that troubles
> come in "cyclones".
>
> Have fun.
>
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