PUCK!

[KamaAina]

[KitchenWitch]

1. PUCK!

[KamaAina]

2. Why, you little...

...you turn my copycat -- MY copycat... into... into.. a... Twinkies thread!! :spank:

(okay, that Puck actually did rule; few if any outfielders today have that much hustle)

[KitchenWitch]

3. Given the time, wit and inclination and I can turn ANYTHING into a Twins thread!

:P

[KamaAina]

5. Mmmmkay... but remember, you asked for it!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8689397&mesg_id=8689397

[KitchenWitch]

6. DTM bucko!

:o

[KamaAina]

7. DTM?

"Don't Taunt Mauer"? :shrug:

And who's this "bucko"? :shrug:

[trof]

4. Puck, of Pook's Hill

By Rudyard Kipling

Puck of Pook's Hill_ is a set of stories, somewhat linked, about the history of England, built around a frame story involving two young children, Dan and Una, meeting Puck in a meadow near their Sussex home. Puck somehow arranges for a series of historical people, ghosts, I suppose, to come and tell stories of events near their home in the past 2000 years. There are four stories told by Sir Richard Dalyngridge, one of William the Conqueror's men, on the theme of assimilation of the Normans and Saxons into one people: the English. There are three Roman stories, set in 375 AD or so, about a Centurion from the Isle of Wight who holds Hadrian's Wall against the Picts and the Norsemen while Maximus, his general, declares himself Emperor and takes Gaul then heads into Rome (where the real Emperor had him killed, understandably enough). The three other stories deal with the rebuilding of the local church in Henry VII's time, a rebuilding project menaced by smugglers, with the flight of the fairies from England at the time of the Reformation, and with the role of a Jew in forcing John to sign the Magna Carta. (This last an uneasy mixture of anti-Semitism with an apparent attempt to not be anti-semitic.)