It is bad enough to read the perverted values of the dog abusers and
dog killers
who post their manaical slaverings encouraging more mayhem upon
animals;
but now I read one of them calling Jerry Howe unctuous.

I have not yet been able to afford the Oxford English Dictionary -
just think of it
20 volumes, 5 boxes of books all summing to 150 pounds. Poor
postman!

However, I do have 46.5 pounds of dictionary,

1. my workhorse Merriam Webster Collegiate
1559 pages (small print, fits in one hand).
2. New Century, in two vol, 2831pages;
3. Webster's New Twentieth Century; (World Pub), 2129pp plus 160
separately
numbered special section pages, and 18 pages of colored maps.
Wow.
4. The Oxford Universal Dictionary, 2515 pages
6, Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, 1728
pages
5. the Random House Webster's, 2229 pages which prints,

unctuous p 2058, 1. characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic
fervor,
esp. in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug.

in short, an Uriah Heep (see Dicken's "David Copperfield").

The New World says 5.characterized by a smug, smooth pretense of
spiritual
feeling, fervor or earnestness - too suave, bland or oily.

Jerry might accurately be called a gadfly, never "smooth", BLAND!!!,
or suave, possibly smug,
surely rough, even vicious, but then when typing about folk who
pretend to know
how to train dogs, and who ignore fundamental psychological
principles, centuries
of evidence, and common sense, fervor is demanded.

If anyone in the world is not "unctuous" it is the scrawny, angular,
grumpy,
gnarly, bumptious basher of animal torturers, Jerry Howe. He's
watched me
eat lunch and shared a Yngling or two with me once a week since 2001.
I know he's rough, sometimes I keep him in a burlap sack so I won't
get
kicked out of Molly Malone's.

Yngling is the name of the family which owns a beer business;
but is also the name of a Warrior Christ figure in Nordic myth who
batters
the ungodly. John Dalmas wrote a series of Yngling books of fantasy
history.

Yngling is also a class of sailing boat. I'm hoping the Yngling beer
will
transform Jerry into the hero who slays all the monsters who abuse
animals, especially dogs.

May I remind you that one abuser on this list once
said that I was merely a figment of Jerry's imagination. Pfui. You
can
find me in Who's Who in America, WW in Science and Engineering,
WW in Medicine and Health Care, and WW in the World - these are all
Marquis Publications, not vanity lists. I was first put into Who's
Who in
South and SWest America in 1982.

George von Hilsheimer, Ph.D., F.R.S.H. etc.