safety in numbers
Brian Fenton (fentonb@mathds1.maths.ul.ie)
Wed, 08 Oct 1997 12:14:43 +0100 (WET DST)
Hello,
I just read the latest Bananafish Digest. 1073 lines!! I was
really looking forward to getting my teeth into 1073 lines, but it
turned out that most of it was lazy, bad people who don't bother to
snip quotes when they reply to messages. Bad, bad people....
Also, there was lots of =20's =92's and some other cryptic
symbols in almost all the mails. Wildness! My mail reader is too
narrow these days or else the posts (like the bananafish) are getting
FATTER. All these numbers...
When I get nervous, my subconscious starts tossing me phone
numbers, like the plate-spinners who add more and more plates and
run around rabidly trying to stave off the inevitable. Not just any
old 6-digit local phone number, oh no, these are serious INTERNATIONAL
humdingers 15, 16-digits flying around the vacuum between my ears.
Sometimes if I'm lucky it only feeds me trunk calls. However long the
number is, the same thing always happens - it speeds up. I hate when
it speeds up (especially the shorter numbers, it gets very boring
seeing the same 6 digits fly past). I visualise it something like the
old Microsoft flying toasters screensaver, that sort of style. To be
honest, the international numbers make a nice change from the repetitive
shorter ones; it's a bit of a relief.
I know some people's phone numbers better than I know them.
Is this bad for me? It certainly doesn't help make me any less nervous.
Can I make any money out of this?
And they say there's safety in numbers...
just wastin' your time...
--
your callipygean correspondent, Brian
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