North_Fork_Trails said...
Hey Dude,You'd be lost without Lost! Heh heh heh.

Good job on the Chinese! That'll teach'em to go and have civilizations and dynasties and things!

Did you know the gangster tongs of old Dutch Flat were also to some extent patriotic, anti-Manchu organizations? "Down with the Manchu, restore the Ming!" Like the Chee Kong Tong for instance? Which sheltered Sun Yat Sen himself from the Imperial assassins, in San Francisco, in the 1880s? But Dutch Flat had its own branch of the Chee Kong Tong. One of the nicest buildings in Chinatown. Not far form the McClungs', other side of the dirt road going down Squires Canyon and down the hill a few yards.

Maybe if you went for platinum blonde, it would average out to a nice light blue?

We've still got a ton of snow here. Slowly it melts. Not a speck of bare ground by the cabins and the road is a mess.

OK luvya and way to go on the midterm, except, by all means don't neglect your Latin! When Caesar said, "Et tu, Brute," the 'Brute' is in the vocative!

I'm still puzzled by how Portuguese works. You know, in Spanish the masculine for 'the' is 'el." Clearly from Latin illo etc. In Portuguese it's shortened to merely 'o'. What's confusing is to add the article all the time where I think it doesn't belong: "my love" becomes "o meu amor." It seems to me that in Spanish we'd never say "el mio amor" but I may be all wrong.

Dad
February 7, 2008 3:32 PM