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- From: esp51@cas.org ()
- Subject: Genetic aberations and armchair existentialism, was:Size usurpers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.204109.20463@cas.org>
- Sender: usenet@cas.org
- Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
- References: <Bxx7Br.AEq@nic.umass.edu> <1ee3bqINN2qu@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:41:09 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- (Eric Minch) writes:
- >new pair of blue jeans. My needs are simple: waist somewhere around
- >34", length somewhere around 36". This size is *my* size, and I'm happy
- >to share it with anybody else who's 6'4" and 195#, male or female. What
-
- In the upcoming 4th Reich, your aberrant specifications will not be
- tolerated, you will be forced to amputate 6 inches of your leg.
- Seriously though, I also had difficulty finding shirts the right size
- at department stores until I stumbled upon the Big and Tall catalogue
- at JCPennys. You call in your order, and the next day it's delivered
- to your door UPS, no groping though racks of clothes hoping to find
- your size.
- peeve: I prefer xl shirts because they are loose and comfortable,
- but they are never long enough. After 2 washings, they shrink lenghtwise,
- and therefore won't stay tucked in. After 4 washings, the hemline(?)
- rides about an inch above bellybutton, displaying a crossection of
- bulging, pale, hairy flesh, which is nice for autoventilation in summer,
- but rather drafty in winter. Solution: size xlxt.
-
- >Second grade teacher when asked who would care if the universe would not
- >have been created: "There are some things we were not meant to know".
- >meant to know". (Above accidently deleated)
-
- That's actually a fairly normal question for a second grader to ask,
- and I see you got the standard canned reply. The correct answer is
- actually "noone". Just because the human condition limits our ability
- to imagine the universe with out us in it (try it), doesn't mean that
- the universe was organized around our mental limitations.
-
- peeve: bible thumpers who won't even take this baby step into existentialism.
- Their answer: blind faith in comforting fairytales and an occasional
- crusade to disembowel those who don't see it their way.
-
- Scott Park
-