Re: Message buffers associated with files?

[Ed Donovan <edonovan@world.std.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
 > Ed Donovan <edonovan@world.std.com> writes:
 > 
 > > I see that Mango has gotten some support, and I'm not a'gin it, but ooh,
 > > Kiwi Gnus really gets me.  Kiwi!  Kiwi!  Kiwi!  Mmm, that's fun.  
 > 
 > :-)
 > 
 > Wouldn't people think it was an Aotearoan version of Gnus, though?
 > What with the kiwi being the national bird of New Zealand?
 > 

(Stunned, reeling from the verbal impact--Lars's Vocabulary hits!)

Whoa...well, maybe.  Perhaps that's exactly what they'd say.

   "Oh, look, dear, Kiwi Gnus!"
   							
   "Well, yes, pet, but isn't that rather more for our Aotearoan
   friends?  Not Our Sort of Thing, you know."
   							
   (Sighing) "Yes, I suppose you're right.  Still, it seemed quite nice.
   I might have whipped you up a spot of it on Sundays."

But I think it's no less potentially misunderstood than September or Red
("Comrade!  How goes the People's glorious newsreading struggle?  Still
on the five-year plan?"), and I like those, too.  C'mon, admit it.  And,
furthermore, I submit to you, "Kiwi! Kiwi! Kiwi!"  The nonsense rests.

I know I'm running behind the list's pace here, but, man, 'Aotearoan,' I
spent half today just trying to pronounce that.  Hey!  (squints
accusingly) I bet you got that off Janet Frame, didn't you?  Look, I
live for Faulkner, but you don't see me using...well...well, I can't
even think of a good one, see!  (Great, what have _I_ just
demonstrated?...)

Sigh--I almost promise the next mail I send to the list will be
on-topic, actual content--unless, of course, someone else continues this
foolery...

Yours in shame,

-- 

Ed Donovan			edonovan@world.std.com