Far be it from me to offer corrections to the esteemed Lady Prisspot,
but I felt certain she would be horrified to know that her personal
amanuensis made a couple of small errors in her recent epistle.
The writing utensil she referenced is actually Mont Blanc (meaning White
Mountain, the highest peak in Western Europe) rather than
Monblanc...which would perhaps mean "my blankness"???
And of course, I'm sure her ladyship's hand - or "main" would be
feminine, and therefore described as "petite" with a feminine "e"
ending, n'est-ce pas? (Actually in France, all hands are feminine - even
the big hairy knuckled ones ;-))

Sincerely,
Ruby T.






-----Original Message-----
From: Lady Hydrangea Prisspott nee Hedge
[mailto:lady_prisspott@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:15 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] Re: Question about ratings

Dearest Mr. Haus,

Her Ladyship has taken her precious time to evaluate the rating
system you propose and in fact it does not, as we facetiously
stated, require a secret decoder ring it does however use a decoder
that requires just a tad more hardware (which can't even be made
into a smart accessory or jewelry). Her Ladyship thought this
activity was about creative self-expression as well as enjoying
Mother Nature's many blessings. If this is indeed the case then dear
Mr. Costly has made our point for us. Why must we use a string of
cold unfriendly numbers when we could apply our thinking caps and
exercise our verbal skills and type an easily understood description
of the location, which any English speaker can understand? Why must
we continually replace the written word with numbers and acronyms
and emoticons? Have we all become so illiterate that we're reduced
to pointing and numbers and using pictures and guttural sounds to
communicate? Alas, every teenager her Ladyship has met seems to
communicate in groans and grunts and eructation so I suppose you may
be onto something. Her Ladyship however shall continue to poise her
jeweled Monblanc fountain pen in her graceful, delicate petit main
over her gilt edged Crane 20lb. rag paper stationary when rating her
letterbox locations.