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- From: rissa@world.std.com (Patricia O Tuama)
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
- Message-ID: <C0B1oF.Mr2@world.std.com>
- Followup-To: news.net-cops.kevin-darcy
- Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:05:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.020456.16807@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>>Patrick "get yer fat black ass down here" Humphrey writes:
- >>Using quotes around that phrase implies that Patrick actually
- >>said that.
- >Not when it's embedded in someone's name. Then it's obviously a nickname
-
- No, dear, "get yer fat black ass down here" is not a nickname,
- not by any stretch of the imagination. Susan is right -- it is
- meant to imply an actual quote.
-
- >E.g. Susie "the floozy" Garvin.
-
- Or, Kebbin "stupid twit" Darcy.
-
- ---------------
- "pedantic (adj) Reading news on a system which expires kebbin's articles
- slower than kebbin can contradict them."
-
- While we're consulting the dictionary,
-
- "hypocrite (n) One who has caught kebbin lying through his teeth."
-
- -- John Woods
- <1992Jan16.020302.29135@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM>
-