[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 09:25:23 UTC 2016


Me too. Then I realized they were talking about me!

Hilarious!  I find that my fingers are going to the wrong key with utterly
unpredictable regularity.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I read "bog people" I thought of the folks whose bodies had peen found
> preserved in peat in Denmark......
>
> Jay, g/d/r
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > And I thought it was so lovely that your church provided a service for
> the
> > bog people (a swamp here in the US, Marion, not a loo).  They're
> definitely
> > underserved!
> >
> > Ann
> >
> > The Rev. Ann Markle
> > Buffalo, NY
> > ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:16 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> > oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > To spell cheque, bog is a word, as indeed it is -- just not the one I
> had
> > > in mind. (the big people's service). We have quite a bit of swampland
> > > around here. As a matter of fact, a neighbor was draining a pond by his
> > > house and found a large bone. He had experts come in, and they ended up
> > > camped out in his yard for a while and extracted an entire skeleton of
> a
> > > mammoth. This area was a swamp back then.  I don't think anyone calls
> it
> > a
> > > bog ....
> > >
> > >
> >
>


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