Pickled Cucumber?

[matthew piscioneri]

Guys,

This exchange is juvenile in the extreme. Why not conduct it off-list? Why 
am I concerned? For purely selfish reasons. It may drive subscribers off the 
list from whom I can learn. It is totally demeaning to yourselves and to 
other subscribers.

MattP.

>MS. Pickled Cucumber?
>
>No. If you were a woman and gave yourself the sobriquet, Pickled
>Cucumber, you'd have to have a sense of humor---or be Karen Finley. In
>which case you might like to size yourself for Ralphalfa's 'grapefruits
>of purpose.' CP
>
>pickled cucumber wrote:
>
> > Mr. Brennan, you chose to monologue to me the aphorism:
> >
> > "Obesity is the opiate of the American intellectual..."
> >
> > The aphorism is quite endearing, but as it stands, it seems somewhat
> > - how shall I put it? - denuded.  Is there any foundation for it?
> > The term "American intellectual" brings to mind, randomly, people
> > like Mills, Dewey, Whitman, William James, Cage, Thoreau, DuBois.
> > Could you perhaps elaborate on how it is that obesity is claimed to
> > be - or have been - their common opiate?  Assuming, of course, that
> > you do not share Mr. Parcelli's view that intellectual honesty
> > forbids one from responding cogently to pickled cucumbers.
> >
> > PC
> >
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