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Subject:Re: One-ups From:Stephen Victor <svictor -at- HOUSTON -dot- GEOQUEST -dot- SLB -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:49:13 -0600
Someone who shall remane nameless wrote:
> "Up" obviously refers to men, since the male symbol points *up* and the
> female symbol points *down.* This solves it, I think:
> One-down/upsperchildvessel
> There! We're certainly not going to offend anyone *now.*
<beavis_&_butthead_mode=ON>
huh huhuhh huhuh
He said "up"
uhuhhhh huhuh huhuhh
<beavis_&_butthead_mode=OFF>
Has anyone on this list ever timed how long it takes for serious
discussion of an issue to degenerate into utter inanity?
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