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Sun Jan 11 12:55:28 PST 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: M J [mailto:saint_erythros at lameassbitch.com]
>
> From: Hans Schweitzer <hans117 at yahoo.com>
> Date:  Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:32:34 -0800 (PST)
>
> >Two quick things.  One with our fat obsessed culture I hear
> enough about dieting and people thinking that they are
> overweight that I would prefer not to hear about it from this
> list.
>
> Better us than Britney Aguilera, or whatever her name is.
>
> >Two this dieting thing is very annoying.  I personally
> I think that you should eat whatever you want and exercise
> regularly (I suggest a sport, specifically Lacrosse.)  I've
> noticed that when you exercise a lot you don't want to eat
> unhealthy foods, plus you are actually healthier not just
> thinner.
>
> Hey, I've no beef with lacrosse; it's how I got to college
> practically free, after all.  But some people can't afford to
> spend three hours out of their days looking for a pick-up
> lacrosse game, and some people get thunk to be wierd if they
> carry around that cute little stick with them all the time.
> Some people don't feel like exercising more than the usual
> stomping around the office, and so they turn to magical foods
> that will disappear the fat for them.  ("Disappear" is now an
> intransitive AND a transitive verb.  Mark will back me up on
> this, or I'll cry at him.)   I think it's awesome and
> fascinating that people do this dieting thing at all, and
> eagerly await more reports of same.
>
> ¬

Actually, "disappear" is already used bothitive ways. I'm more
interested in your unique usage of, "get thunk to be." :-D

W


 floccinaucinihilipilification humorous. [f. L.  flocci, nauci, nihili, pili
   words signifying `at a small price' or `at nothing' enumerated in a
   well-known rule of the Eton Latin Grammar + -fication] The action or
habit
   of estimating as worthless.