Mind Expansion

[Jerry Freeman]

Where else can you come across words like "agogic" or "swarf" and not come away scratching your head?

The word is "smarf." I thought you would know better.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[amar]

[dubhlinn]

Yo Amar,
Send a copy of that to Martin Scorsese.

Slan,
D.

[Lambchop]

I think it's ill-advised to expand your mind when you're a bit depressed . . . it just makes more room for the depression. Mind-expanding stuff is often just plain depressing to begin with . . . no sense making things worse.

Better to go straight for mindless drivel. Especially if it's got a series, so it lasts longer. You wanted one, but I'll give you two. One romance (but the writing is very good) and one mystery. They're all funny.

Romance: Lynn Kurland's From this Moment On. Start with this one, as it does not depend on any of the others to make sense. It's also utterly non-depressing and charmingly funny.

Mystery: Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, inept bounty hunter, series, begining with One for the Money.

[Joseph E. Smith]

I MUST have a copy of that book!!

(no real reason.... really)

[peeplj]

Where else can you come across words like "agogic" or "swarf" and not come away scratching your head?

The word is "smarf." I thought you would know better.

Best wishes,
Jerry

Swarf = the unwanted remnants of turnings left inside an instrument's bore after drilling tone or embouchure holes.

--James

P.S. Swarf gets discussed from time to time on the woodenflute mailing list. If memory serves, one person actually wrote a tune called "The Swarf in the Blow-Hole."

[Jerry Freeman]

Where else can you come across words like "agogic" or "swarf" and not come away scratching your head?

The word is "smarf." I thought you would know better.

Best wishes,
Jerry

Swarf = the unwanted remnants of turnings left inside an instrument's bore after drilling tone or embouchure holes.

--James

P.S. Swarf gets discussed from time to time on the woodenflute mailing list. If memory serves, one person actually wrote a tune called "The Swarf in the Blow-Hole."

I'm quite certain you are incorrect. We had an extended discussion about this in another thread, and it was determined that the correct term is "smarf."

Best wishes,
Jerry

[dubhlinn]

swarf

A Google for Smarf gets a load of German links.


I had heard of Swarf before.


Slan,
D.

[NicoMoreno]

Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths

[missy]

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

[Walden]

I had heard of Swarf before.


Slan,
D.

It's that place where my Grandma went when she visited California, years ago. Her brother-in-law, who lived out there, ordered her a shrimp cocktail, which to this day she refers to as "that stuff that looked like brains." She never went back to Fisherman Swarf.

[Cynth]

A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul.

Some of Naipaul's other books I have found to be very difficult and somewhat bitter in tone although worth the struggle. This one is not like that at all. It is a truly delightful story that can be read for pure pleasure.

[dubhlinn]

I had heard of Swarf before.


Slan,
D.

It's that place where my Grandma went when she visited California, years ago. Her brother-in-law, who lived out there, ordered her a shrimp cocktail, which to this day she refers to as "that stuff that looked like brains." She never went back to Fisherman Swarf.

Very smarf Walden, very smarf

Slan,
D.

[Jerry Freeman]

swarf

A Google for Smarf gets a load of German links.


I had heard of Swarf before.


Slan,
D.

Don't fall for that stuff. The word is "smarf." I thought you people were more intelligent than that.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[rebl_rn]

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. It's got romance, violence, humor, pathos, a bit of magic, and a sexy Scot in a kilt. What more could you want?