Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:58:20 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
        WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Got your vocabulary right here....was: Re: The
  New Yorker on Battlestar Galactica
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 1/17/2006 07:58 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>Last weekend I saw the new King Kong.  Sure,
>I can believe in economy-sized apes, bugs that are best fought with
>machine guns, and present-day dinosaurs.  But I can't bring myself
>to believe there is any such place as Skull Island.  If there was, I
>would have gotten spam from there.

I want that for my taglines file!  Can I?  I'll attribute it, unless you
don't want me to.

>In other news, if by some odd chance you should have occasion to use
>electricity today, or to wear bifocals, take a moment to give thanks
>to Ben Franklin, who turns 300 today.  He's also celebrated as the
>father of cryonics.  And of Daylight Saving Time.  In his spare time,
>he founded the Post Office.

Ok, the rest of that stuff *just barely* makes up for Daylight Saving time...

-- Mike B.
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