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- From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
- Subject: Re: Non-rabelaisian farts
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.185606.7453@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:56:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec27.234711.1844@eff.org> <BzyK2y.8wz@news.iastate.edu> <1992Dec28.154053.5439@eff.org>
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- In <1992Dec28.154053.5439@eff.org>, mnemonic@eff.org sez:
- >In article <BzyK2y.8wz@news.iastate.edu> s1mbm@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
- >
- >>The humor of "The Miller's Tale," for instance is not "grounded"
- >>in farts, even though Alison's fart is one of the central *events* of the
- >>tale.
- >
- >I disagree. It's *the* central event, and the one you can count on
- >students to remember if they remember "The Miller's Tale" at all.
-
- Actually, this student recalls instead that it is a fart by Nicholas,
- not Alison, which occurs at the tale's climax.
-
-
- I will resist the urge to point out that my 2-month-old son Nicholas
- was baptized yesterday; that the Greek Orthodox baptismal ceremony
- begins with the exorcism of all fell spirits from the child; or that
- he let flee a lusty fart -- a lingering spirit, no doubt -- upon
- receiving his first communion.
-
-
-
- --
- They told me you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
-
- Mark Eckenwiler eck@panix.com ...!cmcl2!panix!eck
-