Subject: bang, you're dead, Jake
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Oct 22 2000 - 03:39:30 GMT
On the matter of Florida, Suzanne. My assumption
that a sophisticated New Yorker might have found
the surroundings a little naff was not based on any
personal experience but on the opening line:
'There were ninety seven New York advertising men
in the hotel....'
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I must say, Jake, I'm greatly taken by your conceit
of a country club with membership limited to MPs.
Sounds like my spiritual home - so long as we limit
it further to exclude any liberal, left-wing, or 'correct'
bounders. If you let me have your CV- & please be
honest about potential embarrassments - I'll do my best
to sideline any attempt at blackballing.
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In this part of the world, the two things we always
heard about Mamie Eisenhower were that she liked
a drink & wore 'bangs'. By studying her photographs
it was obvious what the word meant. But only now
have I discovered its origin. It comes, apparently,
from 'bangtail'. This is the practice of cutting a horse's
tail across in a straight horizontal line. In Ozzieland,
they conduct a 'bangtail muster' by the doing the same
thing to cattle as a means of identifying them when
taking a census of the herd.
I presume you all knew that.
Scottie B.
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