From: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: Re: Chunderation
Keywords: driving, porcelain, bus
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:49:41 GMT

In article <ldksaaINNep4@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>(Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>
>
>Glad to hear that.  If, perchance, you ever come into sole possesion
>of a business establishment, I'll make a point of referring to you
>as the "Bitch that owns the place."
>

OK.  I remember a guy once explaining to  me the difference between a 
slut, a bitch, a cunt, etc.  A "bitch" is a woman who won't sleep with
you.  Not on a bet.  OK, so I guess I'll always be a bitch to you.

No great loss to either of us, I'm sure.

Incidentally, not that I'm in the habit of correcting spelling, since it
seems a rather petty thing to do, but I thought I'd join you in your
fight against illiteracy.  "Possession" has four (4) s's.

>
>But let me assure you, I'm politically incorrect.  Baiting the PC is
>one of my favourite pasttimes.  Give me a vegetarian and I'll assert
>my dominance in the food chain in a second.  Give me an apologist of
>any stripe and I'll send him whimpering for his moral high ground
>in a second.
>

Well, good for you, Andy.  I'm proud to be associated with someone like
you in any way.  I applaud your strength of purpose.

One little thing though. That "s" you left out of possession seems to have
made its way into "pastimes", which only has two (one in the singular:
"pastime").  It's a minor point, I know, but we can't be too vigilant in
our fight against the horrors of illiteracy, now can we?

>>So calling literate people illiterate makes you feel that your doing your
>>little part to keep the world clean?  
>
>Exactly.  They can either be cleaned up to the point they're
>literate or they should be discarded and buried.
>

Cleanliness is next to literacy???  Hmmm, you've been reading too much
about the unwashed masses.  You see, Andy, you can't combat illiteracy with 
soap.  Hard to believe, I know, but true.

>
>I said you were having trouble connecting with reality.  Try
>cleaning your screen a little more often.
>

Once again, you have eluded me.  How will cleaning my screen help me
to connect with reality?  Or is it some type of weird transitivity:
Cleanliness leads to literacy leads to a stronger connection with
reality.

This is way over my head, Professor Banta.  I'm afraid you'll jes'
have to put it in terms a filthy, hallucinating illiterate like myself
can understand.

Eagerly awaiting illumination, I remain,

Jenny G

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jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu is Jenny Gutbezahl @ Univ. of Mass, Amherst
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These opinions are all mine.  Flame all you want, I'll make more