From estephen@emf.emf.net Mon Dec  4 04:02:54 PST 1995
Article: 60612 of alt.religion.kibology
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From: estephen@emf.emf.net (Zeigen)
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Subject: Re: Church of the Cactus OnLine Pamphlet
Date: 4 Dec 1995 12:02:26 GMT
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Well, I said:
>> That is so sweet.  I'm blushing right now.  I'm compressing mpegs
>> right now, if you know what I mean and I think -- wait, I didn't mean to
>> say that.  Did I mention I admire you all?  Especially Wednesday.

wednsday@tezcat.com (Bev) wrote:
> Hey. No need to blush and admire. It's just me.

If you can't blush and admire your friends, who can you blush
and admire?

I prefer a robust red to a blush anyway.  (*)


>> You're not one who deserves to complain, though: "White" is a great
>> last name. 

> White is so....*wimpy*. Like Beverley. So....so.....you know. Wishy-
> washy. I guess. I don't know. What do you think?

I disagree.  "White" is out there, extreme, setting a pace, making the
grade, bringing home the bacon, baiting the bot with turkey, greasing
the monkey, venting the spleen and redecorating the place.

If your last name was "Wimpy" or "White-ish" or "Off-gray" or
"McEggshell-witha-hintof-Cream" then THAT would be *wimpy*.

Anyone remember Wimpy's restaurants?  English precursor to McDonalds.
(The arrival of the first McDonalds in England, 1977, was a *big* deal;
I remember it well.  And of course we all ate Big Macs with KNIVES AND
FORKS.  Only we didn't call it "Big Mac," we called it a "Can I halve a
Big Mac, guv?  Ta."  And we didn't have Quarter Pounders in England --
the damn metric system.  So they called it a Three Point Seven Liter-er
With Cheese.  Mais je digresse.)


>> Esteban Mack.  (I think "Mack" is a particularly un-Spanish
>> surname, but if she had changed it to Machabo or something, no one
>> would recognize it as me.)  

> I think that "Esteban Mack" is up there with "Jesse Garon" as 
> "names with driving impact." 

Driving impact?  I thought that was Gard's bailiwick.


>> A nickname is born.  Not that I need another one yet.  I'm
>> still enjoying Zeigen, GIF, Ezhrick Mackhanian and whatever
>> else I've got sitting around.  Froggy, maybe we should diversify
>> and offer a nickname service to go along with your Usenet
>> Salvage Co.?

> I offer my services as Incredible Namer Of All That Could Possibly
> Be Named.

It's naming day in Usenet -- k3wl.  Really.
Let's start with DrG.  Somehow "bonehead" is several orders of
magnitude too impotent to describe my disgust.  What do you have on
file?


>> "Ditch your tired NetHandle!  Each one guaranteed Unique!"

> You know, I was SUPPOSED to be Veruca.

Then you could marry Harry Salt and be Veruca Salt, and then
I'd buy your album and you'd be a rock star.  And I'd get you
to explain that "Seether" thing because I just didn't get it
one bit.  But "Seether is neither...black nor white."
                                              ^^^^^ coincidence?
(Although my friend Cait explained that song like this:
"It's 60% about the violent inner self, and 40% about words
that happen to rhyme.")
__________________________________________________________________________
-- 8 Bravos Toros 8 (Esteban Mack)                        estephen@emf.net
   Post # 34               Zeigen's Dilemma: http://www.emf.net/~estephen/
                (*) remind me to talk about my job at the winery some day.