[the_old_crowd] OT_Regarding Mike's assessment of this Old Crowd...

[Mike Gray]

Randy Replied 
 
> Okay Mike,  I have to ask.  Randy will be what? 

Careful what you scratch there, pardner, or we'll have
another innocent casualty of language. 

Anyway, let's see ... I think I'm going to have to
spring for (8):

> 8.  Arthur Weasley in disguise? (Red beard and 3
> kids so far...)

... on grounds of the latter part of the parenthesis. 

Let's just say that Brits (proper ones, anyway) sort
of skip the "Randy" page in their "My Very Favorite
Names for My Darling Innocent Baby" books, murmering,
"Not Randy, we're British." I have the impression they
assume that we boys of the Wild West like the name
because that's just the way we are.

I once knew a Baptist pastor in Rome. He was a small,
very gentle man, with huge glasses that made him look
like a shy puffin. By one of those strange twists of
fate, he had ended up with the name "Randy Seaman,"
which my UK friends just couldn't seem to get out of
their heads. Poor guy. 

(But he did have a lovely French-Swiss wife and - if
memory serves me right - five fine children who spoke
an amazing mixture of English, French, German and
Italian - all in one sentence, often enough. So he
obviously had *some* kind of mojo going.)

> Red Eye Randy ( who is quite amazed that anyone
> actually reads some of his posts)

Good grief. Why else would anybody follow this forum?

Baaaaaa,

Mike the Goat