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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Wits and Half-Wits (was: *Any* kind of r.a.b. split...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.193446.11138@eff.org>
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- References: <24DEC92.17205268@vax.clarku.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:34:46 GMT
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- In article <24DEC92.17205268@vax.clarku.edu> hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu writes:
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- >Tom wrote:
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- >> Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
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- >Was that -- Wilde? No -- Parker?
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- It should be obvious that Tom is alluding to Shakespeare's highly quotable
- play "As You Like It," where Jacques says he can suck melancholy out of a
- song as a weasel sucks eggs. Tom is using this allusion to call Dani a
- weasel. He does this more directly in his response to Vince Gibboni:
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- "So might I request that you put some substance into your casual
- slander--i.e., that you put forth some evidence that I habitually chase
- newcomers out of r.a.b. by drenching them in obscenities--or else you
- can recant and beg my pardon or show forth as the weasel I suspect you
- are."
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- It should be noted that neither Dani nor Vince is a newcomer to r.a.b.
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- --Mike
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