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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:06:38 EST
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Boyfriend from hell!
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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- >Posted on 21 Dec 1992 at 10:10:00 by Graham Toal
- >
- >Boyfriend from hell!
- >
- >Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:39:51 GMT
- >Reply-To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.BITNET>
- >From: Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
- >
- >Aha! I've just had an inspiration! The reason we haven't heard from Elaine
- >for months isn't that she's panicking about a book deadline - it's because
- >her sweetie has turned out to be The Pathological Murdering Boyfriend
- >From Hell, just like in the movies, and all this time he's kept her
- >tied to the bed and not allowed to answer the phone Meanwhile, he's been
- >faking the occassional bit of mail to words-l to convince us she's still
- >in circulation :-)
- >
- >G
-
- Good lord! it was sheer chance that I got around to reading words-l today
- (yes, I'm playing hookey from a book deadline ...) ... and nobody forwarded
- this to me!
-
- Grant has *not* turned into the Pathological Murdering Boyfriend from Hell,
- but I have done a pretty fair imitation of the Pathological Editor from
- Hell who can't even look at a printed page without pointing out (at great
- and enormous length) what's wrong with it.
-
- The books are now due out, OUP says, in April. I'll believe it when I see
- it. Meanwhile I have to write a paper about the project in the next 6 days
- so I can go be boring in New York. Pretty fascinating, huh? NOT! You've
- been lucky to be spared my lunacy.
-
- Elaine, who really ought to go home now ...
-