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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: Happy New Year!
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 01:40:51 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:
-
- > >Heavens to murgatroyd! I am crushed! I am upset! I swoon! I throw
- > >cream pies in your general direction!
- >
- > No, I don't think you are, or do. But could you just think a bit
- >more about your writing? We don't have to be our silly virtual selves
-
- Uhmmm - sometimes. But when one is tossing out Random Weirdness, it doesn't
- pay to think too much. The hindbrain has to connect directly to the keyboard;
- anything else just screws the system up. If it's serious stuff, I think
- about it. If it's cream pie time, the splats coms straight from the
- dream state.
-
- >all the time just because this is the net. I believe that if you put
- >aside the smilies and the "<evil grin>" business and spoke as you
- >might speak to yourself
-
- That's exactly what I usually do anyway, with the addition of a few nonverbal
- cues....
-
- I might read a comment of yours and feel it
- >hit me right between the eyes.
- >
- That seconal pie sure seems to have done just that. <*splat*>
- Yep, the sights on the pie-thrower are dead on.
- --
- ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
- - ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
- Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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