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- From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
- Subject: Non-rabelaisian farts
- Sender: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.130924.8150@panix.com>
- Supersedes: <1992Dec23.130603.8023@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:09:24 GMT
- Organization: Superseding Information, Inc.
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- Has anyone mentioned that Middle English chartbuster, "Sumer is icumen
- in"? I advert to the line "Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth", which
- means, roughly, "The bullock leaps, the buck breaks wind".
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- (Well, on second thought this is probably inconsequential, at least in
- Heather's view. I guess I'll have to go shove ungulate farts up my
- ass, "a thing al rough and longy yherd".)
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- Mark "and it's *not* about summer" Eckenwiler
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- Every time you think, you weaken the nation.
- - attributed to Moe Howard
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- Mark Eckenwiler eck@panix.com ...!cmcl2!panix!eck
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