From: bellemarecd@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/23/2021 10:35 AM, Snidely wrote:   
   > CDB supposed :   
   >> Snidely wrote:   
   >>> Michael Trew  scribbled:   
      
   >>>> What does "UMSCRIBE" mean?  I've seen this enough times, but   
   >>>> have yet to figure it out.   
      
   >>> It's an AFCA meme, going back into the dark ages.  Google Groups   
   >>>  seems to limit "the past" to about the year 2000, so good luck   
   >>> finding the first use.   
      
   >>> In this case, Sir Clive Sinclair has unsubscribed to The Earthly   
   >>>  Present. He has fallen off the roof, in reference to an old   
   >>> joke not unique to AFCA.   
      
   >> I have always thought it was from German, something like   
   >> "umschreiben" (which might sometimes be translated as "sum up",   
   >> according to Wordreference).   
      
   >> Draw a circle round him thrice, For he has et his earthly bread And   
   >> now drinks beer in paradise.   
      
   > That's a good one, but apparently the meme started with a spelling   
   > error.   
      
   "Kubla"?   
      
   Or "et"?  I'm pretty sure Coleridge would have said it that way,   
   although writing it as 'eat".  I changed the spelling to make it clearer   
   to North Americans.   
      
   Meme?   
      
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