Mrs. Reynolds was famous for bringing a briefcase to school each day with exactly three items in it:

A brown paper bag containing her lunch.

A file folder container necessary papers for her Latin teaching.

A revolver. (this was 1966, it was still perfectly legal and the principal did not dare cross her.)

P.p.s. She identified me as the laziest white boy in Dade County, Florida.

I still haven’t made up my mind about whether I feel complimented or insulted by those words.

She then said, “If you want to read that kind of stuff you’ll have to sign up for Third Year Latin and read Suetonius!”

I did not understand what she meant until, a quarter-century later, I read Robert Graves’s translation of The Twelve Caesars.

Those were some right pervy guys, some of them. The eyelashes on the babies….

His rant on California is particularly right on. Funny he didn’t mention Ronnie as governor when the Golden Stae was the Land of Milk and Honey.

The one on the accent of 25 year olds. is great, too. It’s what I’m always this-close to saying here and abouts but haven’t been able to articulate it like he from lack of talent. Not all of ‘em are like that thank G(most military 25 year olds I know at least).

Many here say that this probably ain’t the end of the world but it sure has morphed into Superman’s Bizzarro World.

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(Eccl 7:10): “Do not say, ‘Why is it that the former days were better than these?’ For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.”

Is VDH wiser than the ancients?