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Date: Sat, 10 Feb
1996 14:23:07 -0500
From: Myles Callum <MCALLUM@DELPHI.COM>
Subject: Not Exactly a Digest #15
To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
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NOT EXACTLY A DIGEST #15, the 16th (77). Feb. 3-9, 1996
TS# 350,000,000
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1. Boldly defying
the Communications Decency Act, wordslers fearlessly used language some
of us hope never to hear repeated on this list: "cuddling," "warm," "loving,"
"giving" ... I can't bring myself to repeat the lengthy manifest of obscenities
uttered this week. On a brighter note, Akio reappeared. Welcome back!
And one Steve Gunter <sgunter@COMP.UARK.EDU> of Bentonville, Ark.,
turned up, but hasn't been heard from since.
2. Topics of the
Week
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Urichordal love
The ceremonial pounding of the banana
Ephronia
Catherine
Wheel
The Sunday-Monday Line
The Fagarwee Tribe
Cuddles, Coos and Chirps
Largesse
Duckworth
The Jack London Trust Me Foundation
"A ggs kind of situation"
Netdoor
Borgeby the Torkelian James Carville
The Abecedarian Challenge
Wordslers in Jail
Worst Movies
Faking It
Indecency Law
Hooters Abroad
Mime
Dildos, Feather Dusters, Computers and Other Obscene Devices
Relative Internalities
Smiling at Your Inner Man
Mea Culpa Part XXXVIII: The Nun's Revenge (They Always Win!)
The Art of the Heartfelt Apology
Seabees
L.L. Bauer?
ErgFest 96
Deadly Mushrooms
Net.kroozer
Harwell, Spellchecker to the Stars
Earthworms at War
The Porridge Bird
3. The Positive Deep
Shit Anymore
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" ..., I so much as blot my nose on one of their designer napkins I'm
in deep shit anymore." --Espen [from Pynchon's Vineland]
4. I Now Pronounce
You Primate and Cuddlebunny
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Love,judith: "You are a good person." Natalie: "But of course. That's
why my e-mail is always full of sweetness and light."
5. A Shot of Skim
Milk, Barkeep, and Make It a Double
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"I like drinking, I just mostly forget to do it." --Karen
6. It's a Deal
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"Ah, but I consider "bitch" a compliment. "Just don't call me ."
--Verdant
7. The Art of the
Heartfelt Apology
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"Sorry the humor deprived didn't get it ..." --Dan He called it a mea
culpa, but it sounds more like a you-a culpa to me. Sorta like a fake
smile. ":)"
8. Love on the List
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Verdant: "Am I the only one who finds Carville *very* attractive?"
JMW: "I don't know. Am I the only one who finds your pointless every-hour-on-the-hour
posts puerile?"
9. How about Spanky's
Diner?
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JMW to Verdant: "Write my biography, bitch, and I'll buy you dinner."
10. Hello, Reference
Department?
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"Did the library shit down this weekend?" --Nipper
11. Tonight on Geraldo:
How to Ingratiate Yourself with a List-Owner
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"Actually, it rather disgusts me when people pretend their pets are talking,
and this disgust triples, even quadruples, when two people get in one
of these pretend pet conversations." --Ann B.
"I don't like Bernard's signature. Stupid looking mutt character." --Betty
12. Words to Live
By
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"Galley, Karen, lawn forces dilation in the life insurance when my fridge
steams. And intent to neolithic cuddle howsoever _Walmart_ leases is hardy
rice. Now and inevitably typing as johnny on the market and oozing Hamlet,
I leg the transmission down to Switzerland and dine on Snausages, and
when I goose the brass ring, I expect to control my 45s. "Validate that,
as you eat Snickers." --Nipper
13. In This Corner,
Wearing the Feathered Tux...
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"You know, watching Natalie and Karen hyper-correct each other into oblivion
while ostensibly trying to have a conversation relating even peripherally
to something in the computer world is like watching two penguins trying
to have a fistfight." -abh
14. And We Knew Her
When She Could Afford Sterno
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"Well I say go to Paris. But of course you'd be crazy to listen to me
I am a bag lady in the making." --Ann B.
15. TS# 350,000,000:
Approximate number of aggies, immies, migs, steelies and taws (toy marbles)
produced in the U.S. in one year.
Respectfully blah
blah,
Mules
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