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Article #2765Re: Classical Rondello
From: strangler the blissfully ignored
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 17:06
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 17:06
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Listen, strait-set, sunshrike, I have never challenged you. Never. I would follow you to the selvedges of the world & over, pass you the salt even if you hadn't said "please", explain to the customs officers that you were sporadically colo(u)r-blind and really meant no harm, laugh at your feeblest jokes provided you indicated by facial expression or subconscious gesture that you had reached the punchline, agree with you that you having annoyed me (that is to say, having not annoyed me) and me having been annoyed by you (that is to say, not having been annoyed by you) were two quite different things, auditch over-reliance on dubious alliances, watch cholesterol with you on rainy Saturday mornings, send you the red folder on LIBWCA, anything rather than challenge you. Not, as you'll find by reading the minutes, that I care. And, if a correction, which is a lesser blot entirely than a challenge, may be permitted: there is no High Commander of the Regiment, with the result that it keeps mutinundating, taking half-days off outside of holiday-schedule, and shooting itself in the back. Excellent story, m'[fish] very [fish] dear [fish], self praises to hilt & urges tbcontinuation, though you seem to confuse yr Roinn Oideachais with yr chocolate biscuit, yr Literary Underground, yr M, and the extenter-hooks of yr failings. A nightclub, dismal, you on yr third (3rd) whiskey planning to profess eternal devotion & boredom, self on the balcony collecting snails to throw at you should you dare, you powdering chalk to sell as illicit substances, self singing quietly memories of la la la la la till you look up and frown "I Said NO Music", you on yr mobile phone staking assignations, self calmly penning a note to the Daily Telegraph ordering one of those Hear a Whispered Conversation Clearly Across a Crowded Room or yr Money Back thingies, you stopping the cheque; quick, pass me a handkerchief, I feel a portrait of Nietzsche & God in the Bahamas coming on & comfortless "rush swoop fly strafe crash" into yr arm's length hyperbolic whole-lotta-syrup something-came-upp-up-&-away-ity have-done-with best-interests business-whose-business stronghold, there to dwell contagiously unsafe & unwarm as notified even should you smile smil smi sm s... Then, all comes to a halt as I cop this for a phenomenon. Consider: Letter A: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 22:18:00 GMT, & Letter B: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 22:23:22 GMT, the important point being that the latter is in reply to the former. A appears @sbccvm at 22:19:24 GMT. Allowing one (1) minute for an extravagant estimate of the length of time it would take to glance cursorily at and totally misunderstand the contents of A, this leaves, as a passing micro-chip calculates, just short of four (4) minutes for the composition and typing of a reply. Now, here is the bit that throws me: another passing microchip informs me that B runs to 315 words, averaging 78.75 words per minute. Taking into account the actual composition (albeit slapdash) of the reply within the same time, and the fact that it was punctuated, I say to self "migod, he can type." Self's notion of learning to type fast lasted only the five minutes it took for self to discover that self does not have an attention span. Letter B also has the infernal nerve to contain a word unfamiliar to me, viz., "rutabega". I tell a passing microchip, sorry, I mean H770, to fetch me a dictionary, and look up said word, to find it actually more or less exists, and signifies a Swedish turnip, upon which I close the dictionary and gently place it on a shelf. Self is developing an inferiority simplex, cannot compete, and is going home. [jellyfish], h. &&&what is a "gerne biete ich mich dir an"?
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