From: gaillard@panix.com (Ed Gaillard) Organization: Radio Free Hades Date: 9 Aug 1993 00:13:11 -0400 Subject: Re: haunted by a phrase gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes: >The phrase is "through realms of toast." >Mark., I cannot rid myself of it *Thank* you, Mark., for sharing that. You helped make my weekend a living hell. I only hope nobody used this during the toaster thread: Much have I travell'd through the realms of toast, And many goodly jams and jellies seen; Round many western omelets have I been Which chefs as specialities of the house boast. Oft I've been told of bread light as a ghost That, deep-brown'd, has a flavor marv'lous keen: Yet never did I eat its pure serene 'Till I had Saffron bread -- sweet honey-gold. Then felt I like some hunter scanning skies, When a new game-bird flies into his ken; Or like stout Prudhomme, when with many tries He first baked chile-cornbread -- his sous-chefs then Look'd at each other with a wild surmise -- Silent, before a grill in New Orleans. -ed g. Its a long way / from Literary...