Margalit Fox does it again. Today's NYT carries her obituary writeup on a Carmelite monk who was the official Latinist for the Vatican.
She writes that he dreamed in Latin, cursed in Latin, banked in Latin and ultimately Tweeted in Latin. He was LXXXI. She has other jewels in her half page story which try to catch.
tjs(NYT)
Golfing fans of an era will remember Lee Trevino who played with the big boys in the 1960s and won several OPENS. He was a blue collar kind of guy from West Texas. One hot summer day he was out mowing his lawn in a tee shirt and perspiring profusely when a late model auto stopped at his curb. The lady occupant rolled down her window and called to him.
"Sir, how much do you charge for landscaping?" He answered thusly: "I have an arrangement with the lady of the house - I mow the lawn and she let's me sleep with her." The auto quickly drove away.
On another occasion a fan asked him "What do you do if you are out on the course when lightning strikes? He answered "I reach for my ONE iron as not even God can hit a ONE." tjs
In an earlier time, USL Sales Manager in Tokyo, invited three top clients for a "friendly" golf game. You know how serious the Japanese take their golf, with double deck ranges, etc. After a "friendly" luncheon the foursome collected at the first tee to discuss match-ups. Suddenly, one of our guests went over to our man's bag and counted his clubs. There would be no "friendly" match today! But our business arrangement was preserved. Sometimes there is no reason to play "customer golf". tjs
