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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!erc
- From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
- Newsgroups: ba.singles
- Subject: Re: Sexual Arousal
- Message-ID: <77554@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:21:32 GMT
- References: <Jan.22.12.42.36.1993.7900@presto.ig.com> <74338@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan25.214416.14239@adobe.com>
- Distribution: ba
- Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'
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- In article <1993Jan25.214416.14239@adobe.com> chesnutt@adobe.com (Stan Chesnutt) writes:
-
- >Well, Bruce, don't worry. The Shakespeareans are out here (there). My
- >brother and I used to pun around with the "coil" used in automotive ignitions.
- >My brother's belief was that if you touched the coil when it was fully-charged,
- >you'd get a killer shock. Hence, the "mortal coil". And didn't Lewis Carroll
- >construct one of his characters with "fainting in coils" (painting in oils)
- >as a hobby?
- >
- >And we grew up in Louisiana! Stifle those stereotypes about ignorant red-
- >necks! We wuz intellectual rednecks!
-
- Not to mention the immortal rite-of-passage in the South; namely, pissing on
- a spark plug.
- --
- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com 801/538-0177
- "This is the final task I will ever give you, and it goes on forever. Act
- happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
- and do what you will." -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
-