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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:08:45 EDT
From:         mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      Re: "Grow" the economy?
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>strange way to use the verb

It is indeed "strange".  We don't have any problem growing plants
so why not grow the economy.  It is strange but feels as though it
will be a useful formulation.  In Hebrew  there is a verb ?state?
called <heepeel>  which allows one to transform a root form into
a <causative transitive>, that is to cause some thng to happen..
Thus there is a form of "to grow" which would clearly mean to
"make to grow"  That is what it seems to me Clinton and other
users of togrow the economy seem to mean.  I had never hear the
locution before the debate, but had some sense that this
will stick with us.

Marilyn
From: EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
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Subject: Re: Butt Plugs
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:49:00 GMT
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Posted on 14 Oct 1992 at 23:24:16 by (Ruth M. Hanschka)
>What about the Superdoofus - is he a Superdoofer?

As one of the two wordslers who has actually met Karsten, and having
spent more time with him than Emily, I can say authoritatively that
he is neither a doofus nor a Superdoofer.

Karen
yes, our names rhyme, we noticed that
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Date:         Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:59:13 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: The <Award>
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> So, Rashmi, Natalie... Yours got red velvet also?

I'm not telling.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
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Subject: Re: Scary but True [tm] 10/13/92
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:59:00 GMT
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Original-From: mhwpa!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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>> There is also a surgical technique for men who wish to be "un-circumcised"
>>and return to the way nature made them.  The new field of microscopic surgery
>
>What a laughably self-indulgent and unnecessary waste of money.

Sure enough.  Back during the Hellenistic period in ancient Israel,
some Hellenized Jewish men are supposed to have had themselves
uncircumcized.  No anesthetics, of course.  I can't even imagine
that....

Ken
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:53:00 EDT
From:         Golden Words Inc <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Golden Words For Today
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Golden Words For Today
----------------------------
_Here they were prosecuting somebody who was homeless, had
no money and was out there doing something at least to contribute
to the community.... He was using the money to get food._
.
_You can't steal someone else's property just because you want
to eat_
.
....  Deputy public defender Cynthia Kairys Schrieffer and
prosecutor Taylor Fitzmaurice, Carson, CA, defending and
prosecuting Dick Lee Carey, accused of stealing aluminum cans from
a curbside recycling bin, then found innocent after a four-day
trial, because he did not know that taking the cans was a crime.
October 6, 1992
----------------------------
Brought to you by Golden Words Inc, a division of Readers Digest.
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:57:51 EDT
From:         "(Rashmi)" <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: So now that we are meeting each other....
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              "WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu" at Oct 8, 92 2:45 am

> It's a bit disconcerting, when I read an article or book by a professional
> colleague, to imagine him or her in the room with me!  Particularly when
> it's my dissertation advisor.
> --bayla

This has never happened to me -- hearing/seeing the author of an article or
book, even when it's my diss. advisor, or a professional colleague I know
well.  I just read it, don't associate any kind of image.  You know us techies
-- no imagination.  :-)

I hear/see some of the people I met at the clambake, can't remember everyone,
tho.

rashmi
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:37:48 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: justice
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              7 Oct 1992 11:26:58 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:26:58 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>VMIers, though:  I decided pretty quickly that deleting wasn't a good course
>of action and added them back.  I doubt that they ever knew that they had
>missed X hours of list mail.  (I don't remember how many hours it was.)

   But now they sure do....in case they are reading....and still have
accounts....(or ones that they dare use).

   dan
From: 185422285@WILD.UCIS.VILL.EDU ((Alec D. Plotkin))
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Subject: Re: VP debate
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:08:00 GMT
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>   RE:  Danny Q's education.

>   Hi Rita,

>     I believe Dan *did* attend a private college -- DePaul Univ. in
>     Indiana.

  NO, He attended De Pauw Univ. in Indiana. De Paul is in Ilinois.


later

alec
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Subject: Re: WWHOMWTV - III
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:46:00 GMT
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>     Final (I hope) plans are being drawn up and I will be traveling
>the 25th-27th of October.  And the winner for my route is the
>Appalachians along the Virginia/West Virginia border.  My scout troop

>Soon.  This means that Brad is the WORDS-L'er most likely to first
>meet me.  My tentative schedule is:

>     October 25   Denver --> St. Louis
>     October 26   St. Louis --> Lexington --> W. Virginia border
>     October 27   Down the W.Virginia turnpike, jump a little east,
>                  and cruise up to D.C.

>     My apologies to those who I will miss (e.g. Karen and Neal).

Be that way, Bob...

Actually, enjoy the drive, enjoy your encounter with Brad, wave to my
mother-in-law as you pass through Louisville on I-64, try to leave some time to
stop off at Monticello.

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From: 185422285@WILD.UCIS.VILL.EDU ((Alec D. Plotkin))
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Subject: RE: My debate analysis
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:09:00 GMT
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>Did Perot kick everybody's ass or what?
NO, He was a platitude monster. He was like nailing jello to moving car.

>-abh


later

alec
From: tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Subject: Re: Debate
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:39:07 GMT
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>I had to go somewhere tonight and taped the debate.  Did anybody say
>anything interesting?

Now if you apply the same technique to words-l and its archives when
you go somewhere, we will have fewer "don't say anything interesting"
letters.

tushar
From: harwell@BANDW.PANAM.EDU ((Bandwidth Pig))
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Subject: Re: Get your motor runnin'...
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:18:50 GMT
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>        John, you've hit upon a fantasy of mine!

Shhhhhhh. I thought you weren't going to tell the one about jello-wrestling
atop a flatbed truck while being towed through the Holland Tunnel.

-abh
and what about the dream of being naked in fifts grade class
oof! I forgot, that was my fantasy!
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Gleanings (63)
Date: 13 Oct 92 09:31:04
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In-reply-to: Akio Tanaka's message of Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:32:00 JST

Good golly Miss Molly--it's a Gleanfest!

    3) Claddagh ring (Anne Hy.)

An Irish wedding band, now more familiarly given as a friendship ring or
indication that you're of Irish descent.

    4) To be between the tracks (Anne Hy.)

Well, this one was kind of a joke...all I remember is my response to
someone else's post where I agreed that I could be considered "between the
tracks" seeing as my grandmother considers my father somewhat from the
"wrong" side of the tracks (an expression to mean people not "like"
you--esp. wrt low vs middle vs upper class).

   12) Bum rap/Jimmy Buffet (Anne Hy.)

I replied that the Dead are unfairly stereotyped (a bum rap) re: drugs -- I
gave the example of a Jimmy Buffett concert as being another place where
hemp (and lotsa alcohol) are likely to be freely and gleefully used.  

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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Why Giggles Cant Talk
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:06:42 GMT

N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (gilbertsmith) writes:
> Emergency room and 10 stiches later I am typing without the
> t-f-g-v-b finger and it is very frustrating.

You don't use the same finger for r?

--karsten

(What characters would you not be able to type on a Maltron keyboard?)
From: TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815))
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Subject: Re: Shell Suits
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:53:00 GMT
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I don't know about C2, D, and E, but "prole drift" is a concept
Paul Fussell introduces in _Class_.  I think he wrote the book in
fun, but if you read it as an earnest liberal reading the work of
an academician, you might view it as mean-spirited.

Steve Karlson

The cheesehead stands alone
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ((Natalie Maynor))
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Subject: Re: The VP Debates
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:35:04 GMT
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> Dan Quayle is an unmitigated ass.  He should lighten up, inhale!

I thought he was hilarious.  His coaches apparently gave him animation
pills just before the debate to keep him from looking like the scared
rabbit he looked like four years ago.  But I think he took an overdose.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: gtoal@IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: LATER
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:08:16 GMT
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In <199210141824.AA29217@mailhost.tue.nl> dated Oct 14, you write:
> >Hey Graham you say:...
> >I don't give a crap if you have a Phd. I have an MBA and alot
> >more business sense. BOTTOM LINE GRAHAM: How much did you make last year?
>
> Oh, please.  How much did you make last year???  Let's talk about what
> matters.  How big is your penis?

Who are you asking?  I refuse to get involved in *this* discussion.  It
was bad enough at the clambake.  If anyone _really_ wants to know they
can find out for themselves.  Or ask any of the list regulars ;-)

G

--
From: CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
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Subject: Re: Reality vs. Rhetoric
Date: 15 Oct 92 05:06:00 GMT
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Greetings,

It's not clear to me what Ausbrook's garbled logic is intended to support.
He first offers evidence, including Greenfield's comments and the
Quayle-Gore dialog, that Quayle is distorting Gore's position.  Gore
clearly has not stated that US taxpayers should spend the specified sum
for the specified purpose.  Even so, Ausbrook says, "Greenfield is
wrong, right?"

Is this a joke?

Marty
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:52:31 MED
From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Feline-l?
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rec.pets.cats
rec.pets.dogs

I think.  If not, there's certainly a rec.pets.  I trust her mcimail
access has usenet?

G
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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 1992 13:44:25 MED
From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: SUnrise, sunset....
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

You could get much > 30 out of a Solex if you disconnected the friction-drive
engine and found a *long* hill...  - keeping the engine connected slowed it
down a lot.

G
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Good News from Adam
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:24:43 GMT
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   Hi all,

   --Adam

Hi Adam.  Congrats on the job!!!  Rita, where is Ludlow?  Does this call
for a "get-together"?  

//anne//
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Date:         Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:57:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: "Grow" the economy?

> Clinton just spent a few minutes talking about 'growing' the economy.
> Does this sound weird only to me?

I'll go along with that.  He talks about "growing" the economy, but
all the talk about "investment" and "control" is really talk about
making the government grow bigger.

Steve Karlson

The cheesehead stands alone.
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Sanity in Missouri
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:00:15 GMT

gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL (Graham Toal) writes:
> So Karsten, you have the inside dope on butt plugs and get adult
> video trade magazines... is there something you're not telling us? :-)
> 
> (Could have *sworn* he said he worked in IC design...)

I made a tragic employment error.  I misread the job description
and thought I would be working on silicone.

--karsten

(I should have asked why we needed dildos in space)
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:16:07 EST
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      e-oops
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

I think I deserve some sort of e-oops award!!!  I have made more
e-oopses than any other wordsler (I think I am up to one a week, now)
and they are INVARIABLY innocuous.  All my obscene/vitriolic mail seems
to be able to slide by undiscovered.

Karen
List Angel and E-oops Queen
From: AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Publishing)
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Subject: From the Annals of Criminology
Date: 17 Oct 92 00:16:52 GMT
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Convicts have been given shotguns
and climbing lessons to prepare them for life outside the prison walls.
With those talents and equipment, they might decide to leave before
Sweden's liberal prison warders want them to, a member of Parliament
complained Friday. One rehabilittion program, at a west coast prison,
gave inmates shotguns so they could learn skeet shooting. "Armed
prisoners might decide to ignore the clay pigeons and turn the weapons
on their guards," parliamentarian Gothe Knutson pointed out to Justice
Minister Gun Hellsvik. Another "crazy education project" took prisoners
to the mountains this year to teach them how to climb with ropes.

-Entropy Publishing
From: EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
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Subject: Re: Human Communications Research (and Debate
Date: 12 Oct 92 02:21:34 GMT
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Posted on 11 Oct 1992 at 20:21:13 by (Natalie Maynor)
>Thanks for the explanation, Karen.  Needless to say, I agree with what
>the article showed.

Me, too, but what gripes is me is that the basic view of most CMC research
is that net relationships aren't as 'real' as FTF relationships. This is
exactly the problem that we had w/ ProjectH I think.

Karen
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: The Hyena Has A Sexy Voice!

>He doesn't just laugh wildly!  He *talks*!  And he has a *very* sexy
>voice -- but a bad ear...
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Well, you're partly right at least.  I've begun to experience some
high-frequency hearing loss, a problem not atypical of males of my
advancing age.  As for the other assertion, I just have to say you
must have a very bad ear, indeed.
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From:         Marty Rosen <crosen@ANDY.BGSU.EDU>
Subject:      Delicate creature
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Greetings,

I made the mistake of sending Mary a copy of my earlier post to the list.
She has issued this reply:

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Well I'm sure that comment will stir the pot with the WORDS L group!
Have you mentioned how this delicate creature renovates, paints, deals
with politicians, and reluctantly cooks for herself?

I was surprised that there really are pet lists.  I guess I shouldn't
have been.

Tell them I love being treated as a delicate flower, protected from the
frost and cruelties of nature. It's part of my southern background you
know.

Well I guess I best sign off I'm so exhausted from all this computer
activity.   I'll probably take a long nap, order carryout, and get
a massage to deal with all the stress of these communications.

Your loving and ever so delicate wife,

Mary
From: CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
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Subject: Re: Anything of Interest?
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:50:00 GMT
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Greetings,

Say what!  What did I say that especially grumpy?

Marty
From: R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn Duncan)
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Subject: Re: "Grow" the economy?
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:39:12 GMT
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:39:00 CDT Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815) said:
>
>Is a horse capital or labor?

Depends on whether you pay a wage to the horse. :)

Evelyn
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:03:21 EDT
From:         mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      Re: LATER
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>Bayla gets respect because she has never mentioned that her mother
is on this list and then deliberately refused to name her.

abh: Why are you so fixated on "my mother" the lama-ess.  I have
already made several comments that led others to understand fully
what I meant and intended by mention of my sainted mother.

From my previous postings I believe you have enough information
to glean "my mother"

>deliberately refused

Curiosity: is there any other kind of refusal than deliberate.
Actually I did not refuse deliberate or otherwise. What I did, I
thought was to indicate subtly.

As to Bayla's mother. Did she ever mention her mother..who indeed
is her mother.....and yours, my dear abh.  Let's have it...
mother for mother.
Marilyn
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      99 and 44/100 percent pure
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.EDU

>Hmm.  Might you be mistaking the fact that Ivory has air whipped
>into it with the 99.44% pure claim?

        Gee, I hope it's not a <mistake> to believe that Ivory's specific
	gravity is .9944, which means that it floats.

>Ivory's ability to float came about when somebody in the Ivory
>production line left a batch of soap ingredients in a mixing
>machine too long.  After it was discovered that this batch
>floated they realized the benefits of their lucky accident and
>made whipping air into the soap standard.

	Maybe so.  I have no idea *why* it's processed in such a way that
	it floats.  But I'm all but certain that the '99 and 44/100' refers
	to its specific gravity rather than any sort of purity.  Pure what?
	Are you implying that it's entirely composed of a single compound?

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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Delicate creature
Date: 8 Oct 1992 04:59:08 GMT
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (gilbert smith) says:

>> activity.   I'll probably take a long nap, order carryout, and get
>> a massage to deal with all the stress of these communications.
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Oh boooooyyyyy!  Somebody is in RTN.  I want to know *where* and
>from *whom* she plans to get this massage.  Do you *let* your wife
>do things like this?
>--ggs (hoping things don't get <out of control>....)

Marty is probably hoping that the masseuse is named Claude, and that
things *do* get <out of control>.  
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