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- From: SA121@phx.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith on upend.cl.cam.ac.uk)
- Subject: Invisibility (but a fun story)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.194244.3975@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Reply-To: SA121@phx.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith)
- Organization: Glad to be Sad
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:42:44 GMT
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- I'm not sure what to make of this one -- the story got told over lunch
- today by the central figure, the friend of mine responsible for "The
- Banana Song (part 1)" (he's working on part 2, and "Yellow Banana Blues"
- at the moment....)
-
- Anyway, Friday was the birthday of a gay friend of his and, at some
- point in the evening the two of them wound up snogging (his word)
- and were seen to be doing so by a number of people. Including his
- ex-girlfriend. Now, their college is quite small, and has a very
- efficient gossip circle, which she is informing of this event. He
- expects the gossipists to be "very confused" by all this (now you
- see what I mean by invisibility, I hope). (My name also got mentioned
- in the context of someone else I know there making some comment,
- but I missed that part of the story (it came out in fragments, and
- roughly in reverse order).)
-
- Quite what this says about the assumptions of the gossipers, his
- ex- in particular, and what it has to do withhis sexuality, I really
- don't know....
-
-
- --
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- SA121@phx.cam.ac.uk | "Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for
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