On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:41:25 -0600, John Nitrox <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>At 11:20 PM 3/27/2004, Sr. Feeeesh wrote:
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>>I mentioned only those  who I thought are still active on this list.
>>Poe has posted a number of times this year, but on checking the
>>archives <g>, Julian hasn't posted anything since Aug 2003.  Is
>>he still lurking?   :-)
>
>
>         Feeeesh's remark made me reflect on my own failures to post often
>enough.

Not meant that way, but certainly glad that I cast the inadvertent bait.


>Anyway, I'd hasten to remind Feeeesh of our own miniNEDfests in
>Chi town

Yes indeed.  At least THREE of them, all began or ended in Chicagah's
Chinatown.  :-)

>as well as a 2003 NEDfest in Kadavu that had Strike, Viv, Crusty,
>Don Ward, and me in attendance.

That one I caught myself missing on a follow-up.


>If all it takes is two NEDs to make a
>NEDfest, I'll bet Feeeesh and Big Tuna (formerly Trumpetfish) as well as
>Viv and Strike are having them all the time.

Alas, I regret that Big Tuna and I have not seen each other in so many
moons that I was wondering if he had become a whale or a pipefish!
He solved the mystery by identifying himself as a Cornetfish now.  :-)


>         A few years ago in the <New Yorker> magazine there was a cartoon
>of a large muscular man standing over a small, elderly frail man lying on
>the floor of a bar.  The large muscular man was saying, "The truth hurts
>doesn't it?"  It's funny, and the NEDs should think about why it's funny.


For some reason your joke reminded me of a paraphrase of a joke about
someone who went into a bar and said loudly "Obfuscators are Assholes!"

Silence.

He said it louder, "Obfuscators are ASSHOLES!".

Dead silence.

When he said it for the third time, someone who has been sitting
at the bar all that time stood up and floored him, and he asked,
"Are you insulted because you are an obfuscator?"

"No.  I am insulted because I AM an Asshole!"


>DPTNST,
>
>
>John

ElPezNeuvo.