Joe Rorke, whom I discussed in the last article, has not only come back despite my twisting his words, but, as a fellow old-timer, he just gave me an invaluable compliment:
“Bob, I swear I think you are getting better by the minute. Here I thought you were devolving and it turns out you are evolving. Not bad for an old timer. ”
Comment by joe rorke
Modesty woud be the decent response, but it’s not in me.
The killing thing about age is that it leaves you spending decades repeating yourself, chasing your tail, like Chinese civilization. Joe knows that.
And he tells me I am not doing that.
You young folks may not understand what that means to me.
But the rest of you young ‘uns are all a bunch of brats, so who cares?
Joe says I’m a pain in the ass, but I’m worth the pain.
And I was joking about the rest of you being brats.
They’ll believe that won’t they, Joe?
#1 by joe rorke on 04/28/2006 - 7:16 pm
Yes, Bob, they’ll believe that. Actually, I didn’t really go anywhere. I was just watching. Getting a compliment out of me is very difficult. I just removed Joe Sobran from my list of contacts. I think he knows but he won’t do. He wants to talk about Shakespeare. There is, in my opinion, more urgent work to be done. There are many like him. They can’t stand the embarrassment of being smeared. Hell, I’ve got more respect for you than for Joe Sobran. I’d tell him that in a hot minute.
#2 by Bob on 05/01/2006 - 3:44 pm
You better not try to run away, boy.
Remember that I’m from chain gang country.
You try to get out of here and I’ll drag you back and throw you in The Hole.