From: bellemarecd@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/24/2021 1:51 PM, Snidely wrote:   
   > CDB supposed :   
   >> 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.   
      
   Ah, thanks.  Ben trovato, though, IMO.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
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