Researchers gained permission to enter Beethoven's tomb to take DNA samples. On the scheduled date, they arrived at the sealed crypt and the scientists carefully broke open the door. Dust scattered around them as they walked slowly into the dark tomb. They listened to an eerie, frenzied scratching sound. Then one of them turned on the flashlight.

To their surprise, there sat Beethoven, fit as a fiddle, sitting at a desk and furiously rubbing away with an eraser at a pile of musical sheets. The scientists stared in disbelief, until Beethoven finally raised his head and cried out, "Go away, you idiots! Can't you see I'm decomposing?!"

OK, regurgitate. Shouldn't it be degurgitate? And then after degurgitating you could regurgitate, you know, if you wanted to.

(or anyone else to whom I ought apologize for talking so much lately)

I once read an article about ...what I would think of as meaning in life. The article compared a virgin standing on a volcano rim, about to be sacrificed, to a woman shopping for an important event dress at Bloomingdale's. The author said that the thoughts running through the heads of the two women amounted to the same thing.

Academic writing can be dense, obfuscatory, frustrating. Comparable even to some of the tomes Raaawb spits out. But I think GOOD writing is weighty for a reason: each word is carefully selected, and carries with it complex, yet artful meaning. It's someone's life and thoughts in there.

I realize that the stuff I posted has all been done and discussed many times over in the forums on Andy Kaufman. I just thought those were cool ways of saying it.

Ok, that was my break from writing my research paper that's due next week. Sorry guys, I'll be back to normal soon.

Raaawb, I totally can't believe how that just came out. I just meant to gently kid you about your loquaciouness, which I am rivalling and have perhaps surpassed! Anyway, I apologize, that did not come out the way I meant it!

Hey, I wasn't complaining. I find the stuff both of you write completely fascinating. My mind just gets boggled sometimes. But don't stop, please.

Peace

Mind boggled here too. But boggle away.

I think boggling is a good thing. I wonder what the process would be for deboggling.

The attack of the boggoblin?

Well, the reference seemed to start of as "academic writings" with the comparison made connected to that... give or take a couple adjectives, seemed okay to me!

tome... don't you like the word tome?

It is a fabulous word.

Marisa?

Who's Marisa?

Marisa Tomei, actress?

So that would be Tomei-riffic.

Andy liked TM... some of us like M.T.! Rrrowr... whatta Tomei-to!

hot cocoa