[Magdalen] INTRO

[Jay Weigel]

Sit stand kneel type

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Lol, Molly! I'd forgotten the "Via Media, Via Modem" slogan. Haven't
> forgotten Deb, though...
>
> > On Jun 28, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Molly Wolfmama <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
> >
> > I still have a couple of the St. Sam's shirts as well as two Flying
> Crozier mugs.  The motto "Via Media via modem" was the invention of our
> beloved Deborah Griffin Bly, aka Debele.
> >
> > Molly
> >
> >
> > The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in
> no other way. -- Mark Twain
> >
> >> On Jun 28, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi, Lesley! Yes, I remember those shirts! That was back when the list
> was called St. Sam's after Samuel Scherechewsky (so?), who translated the
> Bible into Wenli even after he was only able to type with one finger. Hence
> the "Sit, Stand, Kneel, Type" slogan.
> >> Eventually that list became increasingly snarky, and some folks left
> and started St. Bede's. After that list also descended into snark, this
> list was formed, and a friend invited me into it. It was to have the
> atmosphere if a kind of pub, which is why we often greet newcomers with an
> invitation to pull up to the table and have a glass of their favorite
> beverage. So far we've managed to be mostly civil, though the publicans
> have had to rein us in from time to time...
> >>
> >>> On Jun 28, 2015, at 1:37 AM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all, I was about to point Martin in the direction of the 'pub
> rules'(just search for herberthouse.org and you will find it, Martin,
> although I would have thought that's where you would have started)  and
> associated arcana, when I realised that I myself have not posted an INTRO
> as requested upon joining.  I first heard of the big A from a friend  (now
> deceased) in Canberra, who had one of those t-shirts with
> kneel-pray-sit-type ( is that right? It's been a long time....) on it.  I
> read the list after hours thanks to some public servant friends, but did
> not join up for some years. I was in those years a single mother, running
> my own farm during the week and playing the pipe organ mostly at weekends
> in a regional city.  I would sometimes chip in with a view from down under,
> but enjoyed the fellowship offered by many people in distant lands. Some
> time after Magdalen  was created, Tony Clavier suggested that I come and
> enjoy life in a more welcoming atmosphere and I have been here ever since.
> I have now given up farming, but not the pipe organ, so life is slightly
> less complicated than    used to be. While travelling overseas I have been
> welcomed by listmembers and have had the joyous privilege of showing
> others  some of the delights of my country.
>