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- From: hsu@walnut.sfsu.edu (William Hsu)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Wot! Language again?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.125151.3619@nic.csu.net>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:51:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.150126.5166@spdcc.com>
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- Jojo:
- > Mecca (mek-ahhhhh): if anyone has ever been to Saudi Arabia (I have)
- > and passed people on their way to Mecca for the Haj (I have: and
- > furthermore, it is also Medina, and other holy sites) they could
- > understand that I can't imagine a stranger conjunction than a place of
- > ritualized public holy self-deprivation and silly-ceremoniousness
- > culminating in mass circulation around a curtain-draped cube being
- > compared to, say, Amsterdam friday night on the Warmoesstraat.
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- But Jojo, couldn't you see the basement of the Argos as the backdrop for
- ritualized (semi)public holy (ok, we're stretching the term here) self-
- deprivation (and perhaps flagellation) and ceremonious, mass circulation
- around a bathtub with shower curtains removed, said circulators releasing
- various body fluids onto the dimly-lit sole inhabitant of said bathtub?
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- Bill, silly around Christmas
-