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  1. Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cactus.org!simpson
  3. From: simpson@cactus.org (Randall L. Simpson)
  4. Subject: Re: Non-rabelaisian farts
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.052657.7936@cactus.org>
  6. Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
  7. References: <1hl902INNmi3@morrow.stanford.edu> <1992Dec28.181127.2040@lunatix.uucp> <1992Dec28.195834.8065@eff.org>
  8. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:26:57 GMT
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  11. In article <1992Dec28.195834.8065@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
  12. >Stunned at the reaction to what I thought was a noncontroversial use of
  13. >term "Rabelaisian," I stumbled to a nearby dictionary and found the
  14. >following entry:
  15. >
  16. >Rab-el-lai-si-an. adj. Pertaining to or characteristic of Rabelais;
  17. >broadly or lustily humorous.
  18. >
  19.  
  20. The OED cites James Russell Lowell (from _Among My Books_):
  21.     "(Skelton) was truly Rabelaisian before Rabelais"
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