Still Laughing Long and Hard Nemesis, and it took you 90 minutes to find that?

Jeez! How about?

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Lady Bird is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady; O! it is my love:
O! that she knew she were.
She speaks, yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, ’tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand:
O! that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek.

Slightly adapted from Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, and I knew
exactly where to find it, like I know exactly where she is right now.

Firebird

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Yaknow there is but one thing I have ever disagreed with my LadyBird on and
that is you.

She says you are Iceman and I am not wholy convinced because Nemesis was a she:

Nemesis
by Micha F. Lindemans

In Greek mythology, Nemesis is the goddess of divine justice and vengeance. Her
anger is directed toward human transgression of the natural, right order of
things and of the arrogance causing it. Nemesis pursues the insolent and the
wicked with inflexible vengeance. Her cult probably originated from Smyrna. She
is regarded as the daughter of Oceanus or Zeus, but according to Hesiod she is
a child of Erebus and Nyx.

She is portrayed as serious looking woman with in her left hand a whip, a rein,
a sword, or a pair of scales. In the Hellenistic period she was portrayed with
a steering wheel. Also called Rhamnusia, from a temple and statue of her in
Rhamnus, a village in the northern part of Attica. The epithet Adrasteia "she
whom none can escape", properly of the those of the Phrygian Cybele, was later
applied to her.

Now there is just one other small thing about divine justice and vengeance.

*We* have *never* done anything improper, unless you consider laughing at
Thomas improper, and I do have a sooper sekret arkive that proves that, which
negates any sh.t about "divine justice", and I also do have my own opinion on
your real identity, which I have fully discussed with her, so any sooper-sekret-
arkives of your own that you may have sent to her, she already knows about in
advance, and all you have done in that case is prove me right, that you are
simply some harriden bent on vengeance, and believe me, she is a very capable
and thorough exponent of the law.

Alan

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As I said there is but one thing I have ever disagreed with my LadyBird on and
that is you. She says you are Iceman and I am not wholy convinced because
Nemesis was a she, and that is hardly surprising is it, because the US
education system may be good in so many ways but it is woefully lacking in the
areas of Romano-Greek Mythology and classical music or they would have been
more aware of where I obtained the name "Firebird", as we sat in Miss Lynne's
music class listening to Stravinsky, and only last weekend another one who
considers himself educated told me I was named after a car, as he went into a
hissy fit and started swearing at me, and trying to intimidate me.

So who could have had a European upbringing apart from myself and "The Goddess"?

It comes down to a toss-up between a Ukranian and a Jew doesn't it?

And the Ukranian knew about *my* LadyBird from the beginning in Aug 99.

So no Sue, you can *not* date me.

Alan

And all this time I would have thought you more the "Here I sat all
broken-hearted..." sort.