Subject: Re: Beagle Therapy
From: Infinity@world.std.com (Captain Infinity)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.bam,alt.fan.tom-servo,misc.writing.screenplays,rec.arts.sf.tv
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999
Message-ID: <37ce1953.969561@news-f.std.com>
Once Upon A Time,
in article <7qd178$j1b$1@nnrp02.primenet.com>
Blair P. Houghton wrote *some* of these things:
>m-w.com's "thesaurus" is one of those Lilliputian books scanned
by a MRI. The guys at M-W have been trying to turn a human brain
>into digital form. It doesn't understand the point of a
needle plunged deeply into the cerebrum. I had to look up "ouch" in the
>thesaurus. Returning four or five synonyms for a heavily-nuanced
request like "is this seat taken?" is child's play for me. Researching a
>word like "aggression" is a bibliographic sin.
>
>But, when I went to plumbdesign.com and entered "hostile", it
flicked a booger on the inside of my CRT! Suddenly, I turned green and
>morphed-up "aggressive". Cute toy, that, and it'd be useful
if I had a battery-operated extension cord. My brain would work better
>if it knew enough to keep the words in the window and stop
letting them escape from my fingers onto the keyboard. Ideas? I keep
>them moving around. Linguistics shouldn't give one motion
>sickness.
>
>I don't know what your "PC's thesauri" are. Microsoft products?
I own them all. Need a new utility? HA! You can't have any of mine!
>You make all of MWS laugh.
>
>I also looked in Roget's. If you look under "hostile" using
a spatula, you'll see the ants I've trapped there. They're angry (in
>the sense "belligerent" you get "aggressive", and if you look
at the twitching antennae you'll see that.) Yesterday's cockroach was
>under "aggressive" under the sense "warlike" you get precisely
the same sort of insect behavior; mad enough to chew fingernails in
>the same index, giving "hostile".
So stay away from my angry insects. I'M WARNING YOU, BUB!!
>Now, these words can have senses that mean other things, but then
don't we all? Just like when I say "kiss me" and you say "NO!",
>aren't you just choosing what you mean words to say?
>
>When I say "when I <*plonk*> someone it is mostly ceremonial"
For me, the work "plonk" means excessive, bizarre sex. By that
>I mean that in the same way that when the monarchs of England
used to have excessive sex with their knights. They liked to
>bring their sword down beside a man's neck and declare him a
"snuggle-muffin", and then spend the "night" with the
>"knight" it is also mostly ceremonial, and the man thus treated
was allowed to go home to pick up some K-Y Jelly and a feather. He
>need not go looking for his head, nor must he purchase a suit
made of hemp; monarchs always had the best stash, anyway, inside
>of armor. We have outgrown such literalisms.
>
> --Blair
"I cannot watch any movie channels because"
> "There is no cabal."
**
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