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- From: orc@sybase.com (Orc)
- Subject: Re: Orcish respectability (was Re: What to do at a bar?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.192416.1095@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Department of Ambiguity
- References: <1993Jan18.140832.4034@harlqn.co.uk> <1993Jan18.185448.26143@vpnet.chi.il.us> <1993Jan26.105826.26368@harlqn.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:24:16 GMT
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- daveb@harlqn.co.uk (Dave Berry) writes:
- > orc@sybase.com (Orc) writes:
- >> daveb@harlqn.co.uk (Dave Berry) lies outrageously:
- >
- >If something's worth doing, it's worth doing outrageously. :-)
- >
- >>Respectable. Umm. Orcish definition?
- >
- >Well, to answer that you have to tell me what the Orcish definition is.
- >oes "Orcish" have a standard meaning that can be applied to any situation,
- >or does it have a specific meaning in this instance?
-
- It's a pretty standard prefix, meaning "this doesn't mean what
- you might think it would mean." Like my definition of vanilla,
- sedate and demure...
-
- ____
- david parsons \bi/ orc@sybase.com
- \/
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