From: nsn@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas)
Subject: Re: Australians (was Re: accidently out)
Organization: Electronic and Electrical Engineering - University of Melbourne 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:09:29 GMT

idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
*Finally* I get the Crisitudinal original (there is a steady undertow of
week-late articles coming in... "I am friend to the undertow, I take you in,
I don't let go") (I become love slave for a day to the person who first
identifies the song and singer thereof)

>nsn@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas) writes:
>Mmmm.... Substitute some Latin for the Esperanto, Mahler or Monteverdi
>for the Shostakovitch, and honey for the yoghurt, and I'll emigrate...
So when you getting here again? :)

>>No, we get them to pass Turkish Delights to everyone else in the classroom
>*Turkish*?!  Is this some sort of retro-imperialist thing, or what?
Silly! No self-respecting Greek would call them *Turkish*!! We call them
"loukoumia". Which is after all *ahem* their *Turkish* name :)

>Tavener?  OK, scrub the Mahler and stick on The Protecting Veil 

*smile* You see, Kay, being poly means you never have to scrub Mahler
(*or* Shostakovich *or* Hendrix *or* Bananarama) when picking up Tav. :)

>(shall I gloat and say that I met JT (briefly) after the second UK 
>performance of TPV?  

Yes you shall. And shall I use that as an excuse to deluge you in kisses
and nibbles? Weeeeell, I'll take the Fifth on that one :) Malheuresement,
I dunna think I have TPV. One more excuse to wend my way to Coventry :)

>And that Steven Isserlis is *maximally* cute? 

It being a while since I did read the interview, the name is only vaguely
familiar. Refresh our memory?

>(And that I'm not at all sure that JT is straight)).  

A man with hair that comely SHOULD NOT be straight :)

Joking, of course. He can be straight. Ain't no stopping me, er, looking
appreciatively though :)

So have I eulogised Tori Amos' eyes today yet? (ObGenderParityPloy) :)

>A sort of anti-Schadenfreude, hey?  Taking a perverse misery in other
>people's happiness...

All joking aside (well, not ALL joking :) --- that kind of thing is pretty
prevalent to those that are miserable... Schadenelend? Ich glaube, dass
wir ein neues Wort haben, Shaetzi! :)

>>*Esspecially* as there's nothing happening to me to make anyone envious...
>>(Giuseppino, on the other hand... *grin*).
>Oh yes?  do tell...

Where to begin? The time at Melbourne Central Basement Handicapped Toilets?
The time in Upper Middle Bumfuck Nowhere Frigging Paddock Computer Science
Labs? The time at the tramstop? (Oh, that wasn't him! Er... best shut up
now, Nick :)

... OR DEBATING ETHICS WITH HIM IN A SHOE-STORE?!?! :)

>>(Oh, and Kay: my regards to Judes, and thanks for this
>>*wunnerful* quotabilium :)
>She will be touched and embarassed all at the same time, knowing her.  I'll
>have great pleasure in thanking her for you.

I won't say anything obvious :) --- just my warm regards to her.

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quaero mei similes et adjungor pravis.      % Nick Nicholas, striver, EE&CS,
      --- Archipoeta, _Confessio_.          % Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
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