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On Wed, 26 Jun 91 13:59:00 GMT, next to of course god america i
<MATNIFHLATHU@VAX1.UCG.IE> said:
>        i've just subscribed to your list, being struck
>        by the beauty of its name. So far, i've
>        received some strange material related to severed heads,
>        and thus, being perplexed, venture to inquire what
>        exactly this list is purporting to discuss.
>        Sincerely,
>        H Uniatz. (master spy).

On Thu, 27 Jun 91 08:33:06 PDT, 3501P@NAVPGS.BITNET replied:
>>       i've just subscribed to your list, being struck
>>       by the beauty of its name. So far, i've
>>       received some strange material related to severed heads,
>>       and thus, being perplexed, venture to inquire what
>>       exactly this list is purporting to discuss.
>>       Sincerely,
>>       H Uniatz. (master spy).
>
>   We talk about white rice, black power, and liver.  And
>what's so strange about severed heads?  If mine wasn't attached
>to my neck, it would probably be severed too.  Roll the rill...
>                          --Jeffrey

On Thu, 27 Jun 91 20:12:00 GMT, "next to of course god america i..."
<STANIFHLATHU@CS8700.UCG.IE> returned:
>>   We talk about white rice, black power, and liver.
>        How absorbing. Well, may i divert your attention from the
>        contemplation of the above for a min ou deux to ask
>        whether there is anyone out there who would agree
>        with me that saki, o henry, the saint and nigel molesworth
>        are, collectively, god? i regret that i have still not
>        formulated a view on severed heads, but, being one
>        of enterprise, i shall no doubt do so soon...
>        And what or where is "stony brook"?
>        Sincerely,
>        H Uniatz. (philologist).

On Thu, 27 Jun 91 15:21:14 CDT, "Zoroaster, the Human Treasurer"
<CHEATING@NUACVM.BITNET> should have said:
>Thank you very kindly for your inquiry, H. Uniatz, who, I see from your
>signatures, has been dualcareering, or perhaps these are two different
>individuals with the same exquisite nom de stylo but different triplets
>initiating modes.  Although there might be others venturing into this
>circle of circles (turn round three times, protectorate to dealings with
>your more sordid types) who could leap in with good humor and proclaim
>underisively "Let's start a Fan Club!" (though I doubt, quite honestly, I
>could join, unless there were divisions or chapters or lodges by which I
>might find myself a member of the Fraternal Order of the Slavings & Lien
>Saint Concession Vendors League), I will be glad simply to agree with your
>assertion if, in fact, you will be so kind as to keep to your offer to
>divert my attention "for a min ou deux" and keep me thus: elsewise, it
>might be possible that, say, such condictions could run into place as to
>divert attentions (rilly) for an entire year, say, and I can tell by your
>signature that, possessing a noble demeanor, you would be taken aback (and
>aback again) if the mere idea were more than some idle-time fantaste-test.
>You see, m'dear (IFF I may be so bold as to use that familial style,
>otherwise, "H."), Something Might Come Up, and, it's just possible, if you
>Consider it, that, say, you might, in a grand gesture, quote to me from
>some terribly out of Fashion DAP (Dead American Poet), pausing briefly to
>comment on how badly I spell you're name; and, in so doing, you might give
>me a momentary rush of adreniline, or at the very least have some influence
>on my synapses misfiring, and I could very easily fall in love with you --
>oops! but it could be! yes! -- and propose to unite our pathetic and
>measily-going cognoscible nodes into one (1) grandstanding all-encompassing
>putative transmitter; you might take acception, if you're that type, brave,
>daring, intrigued by what goes on here (though, no doubt, you won't care)
>and persevering (as per severed heads) to find that, frightened off by my
>own hoisted boisterousness, unknown to this phrase, renege almost before
>I'd readied your occasional lapse, and parade prominently as Idiot, Grand
>Idiot, and be (& rightly so!) damned to the most narrow pits of hell.  At
>about this point, we might give the other listmemes who find it too
>encumbersome to ScrollDown past the first five (5) lines, and, assaulted,
>discover how unmerciful this all might be.
>
>Oh, yes, wild speculation, no question about it, the mere suggestion is
>enough to make you toss yr screen to the floor or crumble chalk or put on
>yr best "I am not a terrorist" smile or, dreadful to imagine, cause you to
>begin speaking to yr Mother as if she reads this list (though, of coarse,
>she's welcome-on-in to do so) -- after all, who am I to make such
>statements?  You might investigate that, even, happen onto an error-
>statement in my credit slips submitted with my typical non-spelling
>flailing to the HISTORY listserv being for the benifit of Daniel A. Foss,
>who might join in, even, and REVIEWing yr options, disclose such that you
>might opinionate yrself that it is, ultimately, despite incongruencies, one
>and the same, and you might commit a placardinal sin, say, after making
>certain that things would be for the better by relocating from the
>Westernmost to the Easternmost so as to better (and earlier) enjoy the
>sunrises, thereby auditching both of the unwieldly models from above for
>something dreadfully uninspired as, say, H. (for your first initial -- I
>know nothing, I know nothing, I know nothing), and then a numerical abbr.
>addr. without any clear significance, you might commit a cardinal sin and,
>say, utter some name that you've picked up, might even do it twice
>(((Perhaps, about then, you will be appropriated off of this list.  You
>will accuse me of having done it.  I will deny it.  I will help you back
>on, while making the mistake of confessing to having a few spies of my own.
>At this suggestion, you, relievedly distressed, shall swear a relentless,
>tactile, and acerbic battle against me, even as I'm mentioning that I could
>bring myself to error-fix and make you an Honest Woman, which will, of
>course, send you into an unretractable rage.))), might even become
>enamo(u)red of another, say, Dan Boyd, who I've already written a po-em
>for, it occurs to me, so there is no need to bring dues to bear later on,
>all the while treating SBRHYM and myself, e.g., that is, e.g., myself, as
>divertissemementos while living contentedly in ten (10) work-related lists,
>without bother, while you shall have made a mockery of any work I'd be
>glintzy enough to attempt to do by "master spy" catching-style
>infiltrations.  Fair enough, of course.
>
>Could any of this happen?  More to the point, would you be willing to take
>the chance that it could?  That individual, 3501P@NAVPGS.BITNET, most
>certainly would be aghast; he, insula, would be one to declare your posts
>null-&-void before they'd even reached his unreading eyes, though, later,
>it would be no doubt revealed that he actually believes us to be one and
>the same, as if the marriage (1st (first) proposal) had gone through and
>we'd been joined at the node; he'll soften, good lad that he is.  But would
>you?  I confess, I do not know if I am willing to take this chance, so, if
>you decide to stick around, perhaps I'd best be off with an arm-wave of
>TELL LISTSERV AT SBCCVM UNSUBSCRIBE SBRHYM-L.  As I indicated, the
>arresting proposition of falling in love with you is likely to give me
>abrasions of the skull, and I would be better off (perhaps) keeping those
>areas of my life identifiable to the hordes gathered at the door as Work
>free from complication -- all this in spite of the fact that I, which is to
>say, the node CHEATING@NUACVM, later to be changed by great need, I, do not
>exist.  Obsessions, or so I'm told, are very bad things, very bad things; I
>embarrass myself to admit to them, but, as such, they keep fairly tolerable
>company when I forget to sleep and spend hours sidelonging for credible
>estates.
>
>Oh, yes, before I forget, in response to your kitshcen: Stony Brook is
>where Daniel Foss is.  Sorry, I mean George Papoon.
>
>T.

Happy Anniversary.  Darling.