Y’all and Me
You, Webb, are a warm front
that moved in from the north (by way of California),
a blind spot bearing beautiful gifts; and
Quinn, you’re a garden in the air for sure,
Seattle Sub specie aeternitatis with tendrils dangling down.
Angelico, O.P., would you deny you are a golden L.A. filament
inscribed with the name of God’s hunting dog?
Southern Expat, ye be, unmistakably,
a magic Georgia heirloom mistaken for a Texas feather duster;
JOB, obviously: a fountain in a Wisconsin cow pasture
is what you are, spouting Wisconsin poetry constantly;
and Lickona the anachronistic anagram
annoyed by anonymity, the dollar in the pocket
of a New England winter coat in San Diego summer.
And me? I am the discoverer of y’all.
Q: [W]ould you deny you are a golden L.A. filament/ inscribed with the name of God’s hunting dog?
A:
–from the Electronic Publishing House of the English Province of the Order of Preachers, http://torch.op.org/about_logo.php
TL;DR: Tu dixisti.
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Cf.
And yet St. Peter Canisius was, after all, a Jesuit…
JOB
My torch song for you.
Spouting Wisconsin poetry constantly…
You mean, something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STB4s7Qhf40
JOB
The book! The book!
And Potter is the man who followed the winding road…in his plane. Bringing all to a safe landing.
Thanks Jonathan.
True story!
Nice! Did a little soul searching (w/Google, of course), and found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3XbxqKyUIs
Quin, you need professional help.
Here I am, having devoured the Smith Tower, moving uptown towards the Space Needle …
http://popupcity.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Floating-Gardens-1.jpg
Blast ’em with the 50 cal!
As a Texan, I like the use of “y’all,” here.
As an Arkansan, I concur.
The late lamented ‘ye‘ demands to be replaced (if not revived!), and, as a replacement, the comfortably casual ‘y’all’ is a thousand times preferable to the crass ‘youse’. ‘Y’all’ is a natural contraction; ‘youse’, a barbarous mistake — Yankeedom in concentrated form. And the Great Migration of African Americans out of the rural South to the big cities has, I suspect, helped diffuse ‘y’all’ throughout the United States, making it less of a regional marker. Perhaps a battle is looming between partisans of ‘y’all’ and of ‘you guys’. I know which side I’m on.
Still, better ‘youse guys’ than ‘y’all all’. But pray it never comes to that.
“Youse” is an absolutely abominable usage, an abyouse.
As a New Yawker, I say youse guys are placists.
Y’all got the gall, all I make is one phone call,
All y’all disappear by tomorrow…