Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tl00161)

kymsmith@micron.net wrote:
> 
> Bart writes:
> 
> >John Algeo is impeccably clean, is a
> >scintillating conversationalist, and has wonderful table manners.
> 
> Really now!  One time I lived next door to a man who had all these fine
> qualities you list above.  Then, one hot summer day, a barrage of police
> cars pulled up to the house, and after quite a brouhaha, hauled this refined
> gentlemen off to jail. Turns out he had whacked the head off of a business
> partner's of his about six years prior. . .

	At dinner?

> You have been warned, Bart.  And I did notice you didn't list, among Algeo's
> admirable qualities, what a beacon of theosophy he is.  Typo?

	I consider being a beacon of theosophy neither a plus nor a minus in
regard to someone's desireability as a dinner companion.

> >Wino's have a disgusting smell about them, are frequently incoherent,
> >and have terrible table manners.
> 
> A few years ago, I suffered from an affliction I can only refer to as "rabid
> Christian fundamentalism" (but I'm ok now, medication helps alot), and
..
> and some people just never will "get it."  Then, off I went again, 'a wino
> huntin'.
> 
> And it took me a couple years to finally even bother to think about what
> Jackson was trying to tell me. . .and the message changed my life.

	I was speaking of an iconical wino vs. the real John Algeo.

	Bart Lidofsky