From: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org (sycophant-digest) To: sycophant-digest@smoe.org Subject: sycophant-digest V6 #9 Reply-To: sycophant@smoe.org Sender: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk sycophant-digest Thursday, March 22 2001 Volume 06 : Number 009 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Interesting definition of "sycophant" [Kathryn Case Subject: Interesting definition of "sycophant" The following comes from the Upstream website: http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/ ~Kathryn SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting _you_. [The Devil's Dictionary A.B.] - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:03:37 EST From: TRman2323@aol.com Subject: Re: Interesting definition of "sycophant" Yeah, old Ambrose Bierce didn't like sycophants any better than Lisa...who picked it for this list name, anyway?? - --Tom - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:22:55 EST From: ChrisRosella@cs.com Subject: Re: Interesting definition of "sycophant" In a message dated 3/21/01 2:20:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, TRman2323@aol.com writes: > Yeah, old Ambrose Bierce didn't like sycophants any better than Lisa...who > picked it for this list name, anyway?? It beats calling it the "Geek" page, or the "Cancer of Everything" page.... The entire Ambrose Bierce DEVIL'S DICTIONARY is well worth having. I have seen it as one of those "buck-a-book" books on the spin racks in chain bookstores. It's quite a hoot all the way through. Definition of "Love": "A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder...It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient." - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:01:10 EST From: TRman2323@aol.com Subject: Re: Interesting definition of "sycophant" In a message dated 3/21/01 3:41:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, ChrisRosella@cs.com writes: << It beats calling it the "Geek" page, or the "Cancer of Everything" page.... >> True...but "Moon Palace" wouldn't be bad...or "Bad Attitude". Oh well, too late to change it now, I guess! - --Tom - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ End of sycophant-digest V6 #9 ***************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to sycophant-owner@smoe.org