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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:13:44 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: What's that?
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
In-Reply-To:  <4abe62d3.47c1f10a.0345.2b50@mx.google.com>
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Quite an essay, I'd say.

Jim

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 08:44 PM 9/25/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: >> >> * Didn't a young woman traveling alone in a Vanagon run into something >> horrible[*] at a rest stop just a few years ago? > > For you and me it was just a few years ago -- and I'm only** rising 59. > Guess that tells us something about Joy's age. ;-) > > d > > * If you call dying horrible.  No doubt she went through some > unpleasantness first. > ** Compared to your August Age, of course.  To the 20-year-olds I'm > already dead.*** > *** So there.  Put *that* in your pipe**** and smoke it. > **** A figurative pipe, of course.  One would not presume to assume > your favored route of administration***** > ***** ;-> ****** > ****** An "emoticon," commonly called a "smiley."******* > ******* In this case of course it's an "evil winkie." ******** > ******** As you no doubt knew already. > PS -- you couldn't possibly win this competition,********* if I > stopped putting mine in-line, enclosed in double-hyphens or > parentheses.  And maybe my stuff would be more readable if I did... > PPS -- but I'll be happy to nominate you, if you send a nomination > form and a properly addressed stamped envelope. > ********* Of course if you choose to take that as a challenge, all > bets are off.  Sciurids********** are well-known for pique, > persistence and perspicuity (perspiciuridity?), and perhaps > pschadenfreude.  And ability to dodge behind the branch in the time > it takes a .22 bullet to travel fifty feet. > ********** Eudora's spell-checker doesn't like this.  It suggests > "Spirits," "Stupids" and "Scourers" as alternatives. > > Love, > David >


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