[Magdalen] INTRO

[Judy Fleener]

My mug was smashed into pieces.  My shirt has disintegrated, but I keep on
typing.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan