[ExI] "meat"

spike spike66 at att.net
Sun May 24 22:40:28 UTC 2009


 > ...On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
> Subject: Re: [ExI] "meat"
> 
> At 10:44 PM 5/23/2009 -0700, spike wrote:
> 
> >I suppose I shall be compelled to stop referring to my son as the 
> >larva, and his classmates as larvae.
> 
> No, because that's funny and whimsical.
> 
> Damien Broderick 

Cool, I do whimsical.  {8-]  

> >"Oy vey, ees so unfair.  I designed that beautiful
> > bridge out there, but do the people point at me and say 
> > 'There goes Jacob, the famous bridgebuilder'?  NO!  And I helped
> > draw up the blueprints of half those skyscrapers, but do the 
> > people say 'There goes Jacob, the great architect'?  NO!...

> I defy you to make that joke about a heterosexual... Harvey

It took me a week but I finally figured out how to meet Harvey's humor
challenge.  The punchline becomes:

"...Now the people all point and say 'There goes Monica Jacob, the...'"

 {8^O

spike





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