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Re: Racial Classification & credit line

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, January 4, 2004, 3:40
Benct Philip Jonsson scripsit:

> Once on a tram I saw an interesting > case of layered graffiti: first someone had written > "kill all blackheads", which someone had altered > into "kill all whiteheads", which a third person > had sensibly altered into "kill all stupidheads"!
This is particularly funny in English, where "blackhead" means a blocked sebaceous gland that has oxidized (adolescents suffer from, and over, these), and "whitehead" is a similarly blocked oil gland that has become keratinized (adolescents ditto). -- Her he asked if O'Hare Doctor tidings sent from far John Cowan coast and she with grameful sigh him answered that www.ccil.org/~cowan O'Hare Doctor in heaven was. Sad was the man that word www.reutershealth.com to hear that him so heavied in bowels ruthful. All jcowan@reutershealth.com she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay. _Ulysses_, "Oxen"