From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   on 9/24/2021, CDB supposed :   
   > 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"?   
      
   No, in the subject line.   
      
   > 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?   
      
   It's a little presumptious to call a local custom a meme, but   
   historially AFCA is full of presumption and assumption.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   "What do you think of my cart, Miss Morland? A neat one, is not it?   
   Well hung: curricle-hung in fact. Come sit by me and we'll test the   
   springs."   
   (Speculative fiction by H.Lacedaemonian.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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