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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Ry Schwark Bytes!
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:13:57 GMT
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1992Sep27.223227.16405@midway.uchicago.edu> elle@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>This excerpt is from an article titled "Is UNIX Dead?" which goes on
>>to mostly try and pitch the non-emergence of Windows NT as some sort
>>of threat to real operating systems.
>
>My, my.  I saw that headline on the cover, and about laughed myself silly.
>If you actually _opened_ it, you're a more curious queer than I.
>(What're you doing hiding in such a ridiculous article, Ry?)

I suspect this is known as "working for a living".  Once you take a job
without direct technical responsibilities, you usually end up shovelling the
most odious crap to "CEO"s and "CIO"s who lap it up.  And this is known as
progress in our field. 

I certainly don't blame Ry for this.  On the other hand, the Schwark/Reilly
(Schweilly?) USL/Microsoft liason may be the computer industry's equivalent
of the romance of those Clinton/Bush het droids.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: xtkmg@trentu.ca (Kate Gregory)
Subject: Re: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Organization: Trent University, Ontario
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 17:55:10 GMT

In article <Bv36xs.79t@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser) writes:
>I don't know about the rest of you, but to our friends my lover and I
>have one name:  "BobbyandMike".  No pauses between (what were formerly)
>separate words, no distinction for who might be Bobby or who could be
>Mike -- just the single word "BobbyandMike".
>

Sure, we do that to all the couples we know. In fact, the way
we ask "are they a couple" is (to use you two as an example)
is "are Bobby and Mike BobbyandMike?"

Kate

Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: dauber@tattoo.mti.sgi.com (Jeff Dauber)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Red Rubbon Rant
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:16:12 GMT
Reply-To: dauber@tattoo.mti.sgi.com (Jeff Dauber)
Organization: sgi
NNTP-Posting-Host: tattoo.mti.sgi.com


I fucking hate those damn red ribbons which seem to be
more and more popular.  Every time I see one, I want to
scream at the person wearing it. "Of course AIDS is terrible
you fucking moron.  I have watched my friends die.  It has
been a part of my life for a long time.  What do you think
you did, discover it?!?" Compassion of PWAs and PWARCs should
be standard equipment, not something to announce via a fucking
ribbon.  If all these people wearing the ribbons were doing something,
the ribbon could be a badge of pride.  Instead, they are
celebrity political wear, and are now becoming a heterosexual fashion
thing.

Why did Barbara Bush wear a red ribbon for her speech at the Republican
convention and then remove it when she went on stage with her husband?

Why does every fucking celebrity wear one when making an acceptance
speech?  

Because it makes you look sympathetic without you having to do anything.


Fuck yer ribbon.
FWA
From: kgdykes@thinkage.on.ca (Ken Dykes)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: CABAL stuff
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:57:37 GMT
Organization: Thinkage Ltd.

In article <1992Oct1.221140.11488@panix.com> ro@panix.com (r l reid) writes:
>In article <66967@cup.portal.com> Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
>>r l reid writes:
>>>>Absolutely not.  I vote for Italian.  A nice plate of pasta would 
>>>>be perfect.
>>>
>>>Whatever else the case may be, George and I could sure eat in the same
>>>place.
>>
>>As long as you realize that *my* conception of "a nice plate of
>>pasta" consists of (1) pasta, (2) *LOADS* of garlic butter, and
>>(3) just a *bit* of grated Parmesan.
>
>So long as we pass on the squid.   Pick you up at eight?


how about a lovely calamari(sp?) pasta...

-- 
   - Ken Dykes, Thinkage Ltd., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada    [43.47N 80.52W]
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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: jakec@ralvmm.vnet.ibm.com (Jake Coughlin)
Subject: Re: To Bob Sarver
Originator: jakec@ralvmm.vnet.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 13:58:33 GMT
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

bobsarv@microsoft.com (Bob Sarver):
> Right now,
> however, I am somewhat tied up dealing with cramer and ronzone in
> another thread.  

but...but...but...masochism is so..... PASSIVE for a big, burly,
butch man like you, bob!
-- 
Queer Without A Cause!
Jason Coughlin ( jakec@ralvmm.vnet.ibm.com )
"I find myself suddenly in the world, and I recognize that I have one
right alone: that of demanding human behavior of the other." -- Fanon
From: elliott@leda.princeton.edu (Frank W. Elliott)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: CABAL stuff
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:35:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: Princeto.1992Oct4.003535.8435
Organization: Princeton University

In article <1992Oct3.210702.3236@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
>In article <1992Oct3.064139.26133@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>>They put _cilantro_ in pesto in Los Angeles?  Ick.
>
>Pesto comes in all sorts, no? Cilantro pesto could be nice, in the
>proper context.
>
  The proper context would be another time zone!
  As much as I like cilantro, a bowl of pulverized cilantro would stink
  to high Heaven.  _La cilantro es bueno pero no tanto._
>                __
>nelson@reed.edu \/                      When you expect flutes, it's whistles
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson)
Subject: Re: Paul Jabara
Originator: glp@merlin
Organization: Citibank IBISM
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:32:35 GMT


In article <1amjdbINNko7@mizar.usc.edu>, adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:

|> When I think about Paul Jabara, I think about The Rocky Horror Show 
|> and what I was doing when I was a wild and crazy 18 year old.  Rocky 
|> Horror oppened at the Roxy in LA early in 1974, when I was just 18, 
|> with Tim Curry in the part of Frank N. Furter.  I went on opening 
|> night with my boyfriend David (he was David #1; later that year were 
|> David #2 and David #2.5).  I *loved* the play.

I saw it three times with Tim Curry.  I still have the
Roxy ashtray (with logo) that I stole the first time.
A friend from high school was sleeping on that-guy-who-looked-like-frankenstein's
couch as he was putting The Runaways together and she quit the band because
she didn't want to put out.  A better, if not more sustainable
career awaited her in The Bangles.

|> (remember platform shoes? 
|> rhinestones? the New York Dolls?)

I remember the Trash Dance at the Santa Monica Civic,
with the LA Stars, Zolar X (*there* was a band!), Iggy Pop,
and the New York Dolls.  The official death of glitter
rock.  We wore Tippi Hedren wigs and false eye-lashes and
golf pants and plaid coats.

|> Well, after a couple of months Tim Curry left Rocky Horror and was
|> replaced by Paul Jabara.  I went back to see the show with David on
|> Jabara's opening night and I fell in love with him.  Unlike Tim Curry,
|> Paul Jabara was an unabashed, outrageous queen.

It's funny, when I saw him in the role I didn't like
him as much, mostly because Tim Curry had defined the
role so strongly.  I didn't like the ad-libs because they
were *sacrilegious*. 

-- 
Greg Parkinson                  Phone: 212-657-7814  Fax: 212-825-8607
Citibank,111 Wall Street        E-Mail: glp@fig.citib.com
New York, New York  10043
The opinions expressed are my own and not those of the big 'ol bank.
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: Support?
Keywords: apology
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 18:25:23 GMT


In article <1992Oct2.172325.27431@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark) writes:

>Seriously though, Mara raises an excellent point about support and 
>"niceness" here.  there's a lot more than what meets the eye, both
>positive and negative, and for the new comers its sometimes hard to
>understand, particularly without the history.

One thing that may trip people up, and not just the newest
of the newcomers, is that one does not always have to be
positive (as in "nice") to be supportive.  Sometimes people
confuse the paper with the message.

-- 
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Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson
NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu  Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc
Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Ah, Fashion.
Date: 6 Oct 92 04:41:03 GMT
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1451@dosbears> drp@dosbears.uucp fumes:
>Fuck off, twit. Your contention was that one must fit some standard
>of good looks to get laid and/or have a mate. Since I know this to
>be false

But I can't decide which of you is cuter (you 'n Mike, not you 'n Colburn.)

On the other hand, at the recent unofficial bear cabal meeting, the Prez and
Recording Secretary (the VP being occupied with other matters) decided that
while you two might have a monopoly on the word "cute" (in ursine terms),
Chip Hoover _defines_ the phrase "adorable", not that Billy Green is any
slouch.  However, we were unable to judge Billy as well as we might have
because he claimed, but did not demonstrate, that his streak of white hair
in a field of brown, runs completely down the center of his body, from his
forelock, thru his moustache and below, and unfortunately, we didn't get
below.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: astrology and YOU
Keywords: Astrology, bear shit
Date: 1 Oct 92 23:10:21 GMT
Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA

In article <1afuh6INN2m4@mizar.usc.edu>, adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
> > I'm not certain why I find this amusing, but it probably has to do with
> > screwing with peoples stereotypes/expectations.
> 
> Ha-ha!  
 
  Do I detect Arne's irony-meter going off? Now lets see:
 
> Arne (how about if I sing There's No Business Like Show Business
> and throw in a few coochie-coochies?)

  Nah. 

  That would be *faaabulous*. Is it to late to work in a few
Daaahlings too?
-- 

		Michael Thomas	(mike@gordian.com)
	"I don't think Bambi Eyes will get you that flame thrower..."  
		-- Hobbes to Calvin
		USnail: 20361 Irvine Ave Santa Ana Heights, Ca,	92707-5637
		PaBell: (714) 850-0205 (714) 850-0533 (fax)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon)
Subject: Re: Ah, Fashion.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:08:23 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: soc.motss

In article <73097@apple.Apple.COM>, richard@Apple.COM (a flying squirrel)
wrote:

> Matthew almost got it right when he chanted, "Armani is God and Madonna
> is his prophet."  In fact, it should be: Mammon is God and Armani is his
> profit.

Oh, pooh.  Yours sounds so much better.  But it is a bit cynical.  I
wouldn't agree that Money is God, or that the fashion moguls are only
interested in money.  Even Madonna is more interested in fame than
money.  Wealth is a by-product of fashion.  It isn't even necessary
to be wealthy to have a sense of fashion.  Nor does being wealthy imply
one has such a sense.  Point in fact:  Bill Gates.  (poor guy, everyone
loves to rag on Chairman Bill.  Just picked up 'Accidental Empires' last
night.  To *die* for, darlings.  To *die* for).

Back to Bare Breasts - it cannot be denied (well, not credibly) that 
she is a cultural icon, for good or ill.  But she is not a cultural
icon because she is wealthy.  She is, perhaps, the most famous woman
in the world - which confers wealth - but how she got there has more
to do with a tremendous sense not only of self-promotion, but of 
knowing *what* to promote.

Melmothra, ACC
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
Subject: Re: Heterosexuals (was Re: Faggots)
Date: 26 Sep 92 19:28:23 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group

In article <thaaang.717392538@cwis> thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance) writes:
>Heterosexual men are genetically incapable of buying (or finding, or
>however it is they get their clothing) jeans that fit in the butt.

They get their clothes from their wives. Women buy most of
the men's clothes in the U.S., according to every study I've
ever seen.

-- 
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
	"Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas)
Subject: Re: CABAL stuff
Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 20:23:57 GMT

In article <67170@cup.portal.com>, Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
> Steve Dyer writes:
> >Well, perhaps a pesce-vegetarian (pronounced "pesky vegetarian").
> Personally, the biggest problem I have with my taste in food is
> the odd ways OTHER people react.

  You know, I always thought that bears were omnivorous. You know,
fishing salmon out of streams, eating bugs and grubs, and chomping
on tuna fish sandwiches that unwitting tourists leave in their
picanic baskets. 
  Turn in your card.
-- 

		Michael Thomas	(mike@gordian.com)
	"I don't think Bambi Eyes will get you that flame thrower..."  
		-- Hobbes to Calvin
		USnail: 20361 Irvine Ave Santa Ana Heights, Ca,	92707-5637
		PaBell: (714) 850-0205 (714) 850-0533 (fax)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Flu season is coming
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 01:05:49 GMT

A reminder: flu season is coming up.  This year's flu shots are now
available. 

Flu shots are recommended for anyone who is old or has chronic lung or
heart problems, or other chronic diseases.  

FLu shots are also recommended for people who have some kind of immune 
difficiency, for caretakers/friends/family of people in the above groups. 
You may catch a non-symptomatic case of the flu and pass it on to someone
whose immune system isn't capable of coping it; immunization helps to
prevent that kind of transmission. 

Also recommended during flu and cold season: wash your hands a lot, and avoid
touching your fingers to your eyes or mouth. 

Another immunization that some people may want to get is the polyvalent
pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine, which provides some degree of protection
against over 20 stains of bacterial pneumonia.  Unlike the flu vaccine, you
have to get it only once. 


to 

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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: vanyel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Williams)
Subject: Re: demuffining
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date:  1 Oct 92 00:58:52 GMT

In <1992Sep30.213817.23520@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>In article <72942@apple.Apple.COM> mattm@Apple.COM (Matthew
>Melmon) writes (I exaggerate that verb more than a little):

Gee, Jess, do I detect a little cognitive dissonance here?

--

 _______________ Alan Williams | vanyel@camelot.bradley.edu _________________
 \/ "So that's what they taught you in college!  Just when I tell you to   \/
     go, you leave me!"  -- Groucho Marx, _Horsefeathers_ (1932)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Ry Schwark Bytes!
From: mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us (mike batchelor)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 11:39:03 PDT
 <1992Sep27.223227.16405@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Sep28.201357.14868@spdcc.com> <1992Sep29.125609.10254@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
Distribution: world               
Organization: The Batchelor Pad

ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark) writes:
>
> In article <1992Sep28.201357.14868@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
> >I certainly don't blame Ry for this.  On the other hand, the Schwark/Reilly
> >(Schweilly?) USL/Microsoft liason may be the computer industry's equivalent
> >of the romance of those Clinton/Bush het droids.
> 
> I sort of thought of it as sleeping with the enemy :-)

I sort of thought it was USL and Novell - Univel, isn't it?  And your
company is sleeping with Microsoft at the same time?  What will the DR
say?

I was going to compare Microsoft to Babylon, and Bill Gates to the
Whore thereof, but decided not to.

(acetone, by the way, easily cleans the most ancient of resin buildups)



[] ---
[] Mike Batchelor <> Long Beach, California
[] mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us <or> mikebat@qdeck.com
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: stephena@netcom.com (Stephen Arrants)
Subject: Re: Toys 'r' Us
Keywords: Whee!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:01:56 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.174421.8022@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
>Re: heft --- I once saw a butt plug SO LARGE (about 1 1/2' high and maybe
>0.8' thick), that my first though was "I could take a drill to
>that and with some epoxy and wiring turn it into an interesting table
>lamp..."  (It was blue by the way).
>
That was no butt plug, that was a Lava Lamp.


Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: cbe@unlinfo.unl.edu (cbe)
Subject: Re: enough already.
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:44:52 GMT

jns@elea.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer) writes:

>Colburn Eigen (cbe@unlinfo.unl.edu) was:
> 
>> ... (listening to Barenboim's rather sluggish Giovanni)

>Shirley you meant Mozart's 
>rather sluggish Giovanni?

Goodness and Mercy, No!!  To my knowledge Wolfie had no gastropods 
[genus Limax] named Giovanni, but even if he did, I cannot imagine them 
to have been as slow sliding as the production of Barenboim.

Colburn Eigen                     H|u> = E|u>
(currently lost in the lush voice of Janet Baker singing Sea Pictures 
of Elgar........and wanting to go where the corals are)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon)
Subject: Re: Two Bozos
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:25:01 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: soc.motss

In article <BvoqDJ.462@unix.amherst.edu>, twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim
Pierce) wrote:

> Soc.motss is our cage, and Sargon and Claymer our mice.
> Thank you, Arne, Arnold, JNS, and any others who have
> contributed to the literary forensics here.  This is better
> than the Dating Game.

Sorry, little boy, but it ain't your cage.  And perhaps you should whip
out Jezibel's Mystic Mirror before you start calling people mice.  
But I must say, you do have *very* cute whiskers. 

Melmothra, ACC
From: wood@siemens.com. (Jim Wood)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Surnames (was: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT)
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:21:24 GMT

anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:


>In article <1992Sep25.194615.3005@fig.citib.com>
>glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson) writes:

>>So what could we do with "Parkinson" and "Ouzts" 
>>(pronounced "oots")?

>Gad, Parkinouzts, it's wonderful!

Gosh, I wish my NN were a bit more intelligent; I'd have known Jess
already came up with Parkinoozts.

I might only add that Mara (Chibnik) came up with the wonderful name
for me and my lover (David Levy), "Woovy."  :-)

--
Jim Wood [jwood@siemens.siemens.com] (609) 734-3643
"Rise up on the wings of eagles, and two step among the stars.
 You are not forgotten.  Your smile will echo forever."
   -- Ryerson Schwark, to our friend Rob Bernardo.
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Camille Paglia on fashion (was Re: Ah, Fashion.)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:27:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.172914.7349@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) 
writes:
>
>	As if we needed more people being "told" that if they
>don't look like X their worth is diminished.
>
>	Beauty is internal, not external.  Fashion is
>a way for people to make money off of other people's insecurities.
>When you "go in for fashion" you're buying this demoralizing
>and dehumanizing crap lock, stock and barrel.

That esteemed philosopher Camille Paglia says: 

"These establishment feminists are elitists.  They literally believe that
the people are being brainwashed.  That the homemakers who are buying the
fashion magazines are weak and gullible and allow people to brainwash tem.
My attitude is, Hmm, all these homemakers buy nillions of copies of Vogue.
What does that mean?  It must mean that there's something in it that they
*like*.  There's something in it that's fund for them.  So this is where I
got my theory that most women, most ordinary women out there, *like looking
good*.  They want to be attractive to men.  They *love* looking at fashion
magazines.  It's not that the fashion magazines are brainwashing them and
making them feel lousy.  You don't buy a magazine that makes you feel
lousy!" 


The interview with her in the Examiner is very interesting.  It's probably
an overstatement to say that I disagree with everything she says, but she
definitely has strongly held ideas that she has thought about.  

-----

"They're calling anti-woman a woman who has spent hundreds of hours with
her head between other women's legs.  And who loves it and is great at it,
because I played the clarinet for years.  So did Woody Allen." 

                  - Camille Paglia, about her detractors



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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Madonna bashing
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:18:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Sep28.201854.15093
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <66742@cup.portal.com> Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
>>>Ahem, well, I *was* somewhat tempted at motss.con, but as I am
>>>in reality a *shy* and *retiring* forest creature, particularly
>>>around those who have declared partners....
>Yes, but I was talking about Robert Coren (and John Gintell, of
>course), not yourself.  ;-{)##]

Oh my, George.  I do believe you'd have had to take a number.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Frozen Green Tomatoes (was Re: Northern Exposure
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:27:13 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Sep30.150034.2334@usl.edu> rhb@ucs.usl.edu (Bird Rendell H.) 
writes:
>
>I read the book by Fannie Flagg "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle
>Stop Cafe" and this weekend I finally got around to seeing the movie
>_Fried Green Tomatoes_, and in neither medium did I think for even
>one minute that Idgie and Ruth were anything other than good, platonic
>friends.

I read the book first, then saw (but didn't hear) the movie.  I agree with
you.  Our point of view is extremely rare, yes. 

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From: tdober@llnl.gov (TDO)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Ours flamb'e
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:42:41 GMT
Followup-To: soc.motss
Organization: llnl

In article <67020@cup.portal.com>, Minotaur@cup.portal.com (Frank -
Swilling) wrote:


> All I know is that the thought of a troop of studpuppies handling
> their *big* *thick* *hoses* as they rush to be at my side is raising
> more than just my temperature.

"Gushing". You forgot "gushing".

*big* *thick* *gushing* *hoses*

Doesn't that sound better?


> Frank


TDO (the completist)
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