Blue on blue

[Jonathan Lighter]

I made that part up by imagining what I would have done in similar circumstances.

Those yet constrained by a moribund pre-postal ethic would call it "fibbing," but I call it "post-modern zeitgeistal meaning enhan(cement)."

JL


James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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> After the anthropologists went home, the people
> laughed for many days. "They can put a man on the
> moon, but they need us to sort their colors! Now
> everybody dance!"

Statements like this intigue me. If the
anthropologists had gone home, who observed and
reported the words and actions of the natives?




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