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- From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
- Subject: Re: Wits and Half-Wits (was: *Any* kind of r.a.b. split...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.221517.11191@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:15:17 GMT
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- mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin):
- >>> Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
- >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.
-
- Wrong wrong wrong. You see, Mike, even you sometimes make the mistake
- of attributing uncharitable motives where none are present. Tom was
- obviously alluding to the crass materialism which too often attends
- Christmas, and was reminding us that education is the most precious
- of gifts. There, aren't you embarrassed?
-
- -----
- Dani Zweig
- dani@netcom.com
-
- The surface of the strange, forbidden planet was roughly textured and green,
- much like cottage cheese gets way after the date on the lid says it is all
- right to buy it.--Scott Jones
-