Word-Blending Puns From Off-List
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 15:55 |
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Hmm...
Quote from an email i recieved on a different listserv, commenting on a
previous messager's sig:
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:14:25 -0400 (EDT) Name Withheld For Protection
writes:
> > "I am become death, shatterer of worlds."
> > --Robert J. Oppenheimer,
> > Quoted after the first
> > Atomic Bomb test at Trinity.
> > ###########################################
> >
>
> Actually the place was called Alamagordo New Mexico. The
> test was
> called Trinity, for reasons that no one really understands. Mmmmmm,
> subverted christian metaphor, sacrilicious.
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¿_sacrilicious_?
The "Mmmmmm" before it seems to indicate that it's a bit more than a
misspelling of "sacriligious"....a blend of "sacriligious" and
"delicious", probably...
-Stephen (Steg)
"sleep, like a fog, blew over him." ~ _gilgamesh_