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Date Posted: 19:13:34 12/03/99 Fri
Author: Patti
Author Host/IP: dialup22.pcras1.igateway.com / 207.44.26.22
Subject: Antidotes
In reply to: George 's message, "potions" on 11:00:48 12/03/99 Fri

> I need a new phoney name,
> one that will convey
> my superiority.
> Perhaps something with
> a * and a )
> or maybe the two in conjunction
> like this:
> blah*),
> or some other arrangement
> using bizarre keys
> off a keyboard made
> of neon lizard tongues.
> Something that says
> "Hey, I'm published
> under a million phoney names
> in a million mediocre publications"
> without me having
> to come right out and say it.
> Something that says,
> "I was Ernest Hemmingway's typist.
> I can marble your lungs with silence
> and even finish your sentences for you."
> (Enerst Hemmingway's)
> (Ernest Hemmingway's typist.*)
> Some kind of hieroglyphic
> that will let you know
> what is to follow,
> with lots of hidden
> "whence"s
> and "whilst thou"s
> and other old words
> from a time when people were
> smaller,
> when they drank special
> potions
> to come up with clever names
> and words that end
> with "-eth".
> Something that can make
> me smile in the mirror
> and laugh when
> I'm not supposed to.
>
> -tdd

You need a real name
one that will convey
your identity, say perhaps
the one off your birth certificate.
Of course it is still your
right to add a * or a )
or maybe the two in conjunction
like this:
George*),
or any other arrangement
of the 26 letters that make up
a keyboard.
But George is cool. George
as in George of the Jungle, or
Curious George or King
George the (insert appropriate number)
or the read-my-lips George.
(Actually I'd love to read your
lips if it would help me understand
what the world
you're saying half the time.)
Hieroglyphics won't work.
Of course you could add a �,
which is a dung beetle, or a �,
which is a rhinoceros beetle.
Beetles were a big thing
to the Egyptians.
(Are you Egyptian?)
They were small people,
you know, but
I don't know about the
potions thing (still
looking for #9 so
I can make my fortune).
Are you smiling?
Quick! Go look in a mirror!

(P.S. I hope you know that I am only ribbing you. :)

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Re: Antidotes -- something with a *, 01:02:17 12/04/99 Sat
- Re: Antidotes -- Patti, 06:18:18 12/04/99 Sat