NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/soc/singles/38283

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From: [e-mail] (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Trygve's shower
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:07:54 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Amy Lindsay) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (trygve lode) writes:
>>No problem--I just wanted to make sure that I didn't get a toolbox that's
>>too small or uncomfortable.  I'll even fill it at first with comfy stuff
>>like extension cords and balls of string.  (In absolute terms, those may
>>not sound real comfy, but as toolbox fillings go....)
>
>Well, it doesn't look like I need to make the trip after all.  With all
>those offers to share your shower I'm sure I won't be missed anyway.

Awwww...of course you'll be missed--besides, there's plenty of room.

>(Actually, I haven't been too interested in bathrooms since we studied them
>in Architecture school. It kind of loses something when all you can think
>about is how the pipes are connected to the rest of the systems...  Blue
>was a good choice for the tile, though.)

Thanks--though that's not just any blue, it's cobalt blue.  (As close as
possible to a lovely little cobalt glass chalice that I describe as "so
blue that it hurts.")

Still, this gives me motivation to come up with some way of getting the
mind of a visitor to my bathroom off the details of the pipe routing.

>>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Amy Lindsay) writes:
>
>>>Hmmm, probably the closest I can get at the moment would be Harrisburg.
>>>Otherwise, I'd have to rent the plane for longer than just one day and I
>>>really can't afford that with my job going away... or not.
>>
>>Alas, even with a 38" sleeve, I fear I won't be able to reach all the way
>>to Harrisburg....
>
>Oh.  (with disappointment) So you aren't spacially transcendental?  I guess
>this means we're ultimately incompatible.  I suppose it's good we found
>this out now.

Alas, it's true.  (Though since I'm spacially real, does that mean that
trancendental is included?)  But, you're no doubt right--it's probably
for the best that we found out now.

>This must mean you don't have minions of your own either, do you?

Do employees count?

>(By the way, you didn't say how tall YOU were, Trygve. That is, when you're
>able to stand up...)

Well, I have high hopes of being 6'4" again--though I suppose that all
this time in bed might have stretched me out a little further.  (I didn't
mention it, since I figured that nobody would make a toolbox in my size
anyway.)

>>Well, I do happen to know a good place only a few miles from me that
>>specializes in alternators for just about any car (and they do Porsche
>>alternators for a mere $70--so most other kinds of cars are probably
>>a fair bit cheaper even than that).
>
>Well, it's not quite so esoteric as a Porsche.  In fact, it's only a
>Corolla, but it's a STEALTH Corolla (AND it's paid for.)

A stealth Corolla?  I don't suppose you could elaborate on that....
(Does this mean that people tend to drive into it in parking lots,
thinking that the space it's occupying is vacant?)  (Oh, in the
interests of general obnoxiousness, one of my removable bumper stickers
for the Porsche says "Don't Laugh--It's Paid For.")

>(Oh, and it turned out that I didn't need a new alternator.  It was just
>crud built up on the terminals of the battery, which we cleaned up
>yesterday.  I am going to replace the distributor cap and rotor next
>weekend if you'd like to help...)

Delighted to--I've done that sort of thing often enough that it shouldn't
take more than a couple of minutes.  (You can get it over here without
damaging my entryway carpet, can't you?)

>>A Western medical doctor?  Not at all--I was assuming you'd want to dress
>>in a couple of leaves and dance wildly around my bed....
>
>Bad assumption.  No biscuit.

Even if I said, "please"?

>The Minions have voted to return your shower head so that you don't have to
>get out and meet people just so you can take a shower.  I know you're
>relieved to hear that.  (You ought to be more careful.  You scared them,
>you know.)

I do that sometimes--what on earth do you think it could be?  The dungeon?
The fangs?  The collection of bizarre books including a 700-page tome on
the physical structure of the common housefly?

>Anyway, they've decided to take something from the living room, instead.

How about some of the plants--I'd want them back eventually, but I'm
having more trouble carrying a watering can these days....

Trygve
--
"The Bard of Buckingham by Murray Chinancoop.  Literature expert
 Chinancoop presents compelling evidence that the plays of Shakespeare
 were written by none other than Queen Elizabeth I.  'I was convinced'
 --a New York Times reader.  1564pp."