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- From: "Michael Smith" <p00004@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Trying to understand Jobst (Was: Re: Cold Weather hydration...)
- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec23.165406.7437@walter.bellcore.com>
- Message-ID: <2934222770.0.p00004@psilink.com>
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- Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:59:34 GMT
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- >DATE: Wed, 23 Dec 92 16:54:06 GMT
- >FROM: Ken Lehner <kenl@origami.cc.bellcore.com>
- >
- >In article <3450007@hplred.HPL.HP.COM>, jbrandt@hplred.HPL.HP.COM (Jobst Brandt) writes:
- >|>
- >|> The motorists don't give a damn. Its the bicyclists who feel
- >|> awkward in their provocative punk-like attire with iridescent
- >|> shades and Day-Glo equipment.
- [....]
- >|>
- >|> This is parallel to the woman who comes to a cocktail party dressed
- >|> with so much exposure and glittering attire that she feels a need to
- >|> light up a cigarette just to be doing something other than
- >|> apparently soliciting attention (possibly sexual at that).
-
- Oh my God! I haven't been following this thread, and now -- too late --
- I find that Jobst Brandt has been here with obiter dicta on cycling fashion
- and his insights into the eternal riddle of Woman.
-
- This is priceless, and I'm really vexed to have missed a word of it. Has
- anybody been keeping this material?
-
- --Michael Smith
-