worthless French book by Brisard & Dasquie

[Wayne Johnson]

Speaking of history, we must, of course, not forget the odyssey of another
member of the Goethe clan, Waldorf Goethe Wend.  As many of you may or may
not know, there is a Wendish museum just East of Austin, not far from
Smithville.  There are Wends in Austin, in fact, I once worked for a Wendish
architect who will go un-named because he may still exist.  The shame, the
shame.  I digress.  The Wends, including WGW, emigrated from Germany seeking
religious freedom and the right to practice acupuncture without State
intervention.  WGW was a major practioner and was especially adept at
ridding women of their "worries" (He doubled as a gynecologist) and ridding
dogs of worms.  One of his "charts" can be seen at the museum, it closely
resembles Chinese charts of the same period, not doubt due to WGW's
extensive travels in the Orient.  He was once a conductor on the Orient
Express and sold café lattes in a little bazaar near Hagia Sophia in
Istanbul (not Constaninople) before traveling on to Qum, Ishfahan and
Hyderabad.  Later, it is said, or was said as all those who once said these
things are, of course, dead, that disguised as a Pullman porter he hijacked
a junk and sailed from Mindinao to Melbourne.  Sadly, this excursion into
the Southern Hemisphere and multiple attempts to breed a sheep that "shed"
its wool, exposed WGW to the dreaded Wallaburro sheep disease, which,
forty-five years later, hastened his untimely death.  From Australia, WGW
worked as a Chinese cook aboard a tramp freighter.  Here it is rumoured he
met the original Sadie Thompson but these accounts are suspect.  However, he
picked up many useful tips on make-up and cross-dressing which enabled him
to work briefly in a sleazy bar in San Francisco before his long burro trek
across the Mojave to Texas.  After a successful practice as a financial
advisor to rich Austin widows, he retired to his ranch near San Saba, while
still keeping his hand in family affairs close to home.  His unauthorized
biography "My Life as a Transvestite Veterinarian & Cook" mentions his
extensive collection of carpets, rugs and quilts.

Check out the Wend museum.

Wayne

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Baldauf [mailto:jfbaldauf@prodigy.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 5:39 PM
To: Wayne Johnson; Michael Eisenstadt; austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Subject: Re: worthless French book by Brisard & Dasquie

Der Bub wondered:
> Uh, Jim Bob, was you referrin' to the wimmin or the aurochs?  I didn't get
> the message?
> Bubba

My bad, Bubba! I actually meant to say:

> Yes, if they was [both] good breeders.<

Which is where Emory's great grandfather came in, first weaving that
particular thread of the rich tapestry of Goerthe family history. And I mean
that "weaving of threads" quite literally, not just literarily. In the very
back of the LBJ School's Barker Texas History Museum is an extensive
collection of early Texas-German quilts (Kabin Frau Gequilten) that is not
on display to the general public. Graduate level art history researchers can
reference Quilts/Erotic/Ribald/Goethe/Emory/Auroch/In-Congress to see the
seeds of the Grimes/Washington County Scandal that first led the Goerthes
west to Georgetown and north to Hearn and Franklin. As they say at the
Barker Museum- "The rest, of course, is history."

Jim Bob



> -----Original Message-----
> From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
> [mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Jim Baldauf
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:48 AM
> To: Wayne Johnson; Michael Eisenstadt; austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> Subject: Re: worthless French book by Brisard & Dasquie
>
> Wayne recalled:
> >In the "good old (boy) days", a guy could get a pretty
> good woman (ie. Under16) for a couple of aurochs<
>
 Actually, ol' J.W. Goerth's great-great
> grandfather is said to have imported a pair of aurochs from
> Allsaice-Lorraine and set them out in the Navasota and Brazos river
bottoms
> in Grimes and Washington counties.
>
> Re Wayne's earlier recollection:
> >Ernest married one of the Palm sisters and Emory, well Emory sort of went
> "the other way."  Still for a 6-4" 300# guy he was remarkably nice. At
least
> nobody messed with him.<
>
> When Emory "sort of went the other way" it was, of course, toward
livestock,
> the first love of more than a few early Texas-German country boys. And in
> Emory's case it was toward aurochs. The main reason that no one messed
with
> him was the distinctive fragrance imparted by the unique musk gland of the
> auroch in estrous.
> jb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com>
> To: Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>;
> <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 7:41 AM
> Subject: RE: worthless French book by Brisard & Dasquie
>
>
> > In the "good old (boy) days", a guy could get a pretty good woman (ie.
> Under
> > 16) for a couple of aurochs.  These days it takes a lot more.
> >
> > What's a guy gotta do?
> >
> > Abu ben Bubba
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
> > [mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Michael
> > Eisenstadt
> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:32 PM
> > To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> > Subject: Re: worthless French book by Brisard & Dasquie
> >
> > tejas wrote:
> > >
> > > Thassa "aurochs".
> >
> > yass, 6.5 aurochs for Bin Laden -- The Suppressed Truth
> >
> > you can tell from the cover how worthless it is
> >
> >
>
>