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- From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
- Subject: FauxNoWhere (Was: Living in the Middle of Nowhere)
- In-Reply-To: Sonja Kueppers's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:50:44 EST
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:52:47 GMT
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- <In article <93021.105044SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
-
- <Most of the time, I like living in the middle of nowhere.
-
- Sounds good to me. More and more I find myself
- wishing I could live "in the middle of nowhere".
-
- <However, just recently it's been getting on my nerves.
- <I am delighted that my relatives want to give me china, silver, and
- <crystal for my upcoming wedding.
-
- ObPeeve: bribes given to post-adolescents so they will
- get a State-Sex-License.
-
- <Of course, they want to know which *patterns* of these things to give
- <us.
-
- ObArchaicism: Tell 'em, "Oh, anything that goes good with
- 'trails'".
-
- <This would normally be fun.
-
- ObPeeve: people who think shopping for bribes is "fun".
-
- <Unfortunately, I live in the Middle of Nowhere. There is exactly one
- <store in this area which sells china, crystal, and silver.
-
-
- FAKE! FAKE! FAKE!
-
- Honey, you-uns don't live anywhere NEAR the "middle of
- nowhere" if there's a store that sells that kinda junk.
-
- "Middle of Nowhere" means you drive, oh, more than 20
- milese (32km) to get to the first place that sells
- bread, soft drinks and newspapers.
-
- "Middle of Nowhere" means there ain't a china/silver/stuff
- store within, oh, 100 to 200 miles (160 to 320km).
-
- There's places like that in Nuevo Mexico, and I ain't
- tellin' where they are, neither.
-
- [Fauxness deleted]
-