Hi!

[Scot LaFaive]

I for one must say that I feel nothing but sadness for Wilson's upset tummy.
I feel for him and his Pepto starving insides. And it is a sad day indeed
when one's adominal achings are used as ammunition against sugar babies and
myspacers alike. Embrace his pain and become one with him.

Scot


>From: Rachel Berardinelli <rachelb at UNM.EDU>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Hi!
>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 19:13:53 -0600
>
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>Poster:       Rachel Berardinelli <rachelb at UNM.EDU>
>Subject:      Re: Hi!
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>
>Is it not somehow creepy that somebody gets so shook over
>some e-mail list to essentially e-stalk somebody, but
>thanks for looking, I'm sure your IP address will be safe
>with me. I'm still curious as to how one's myspace has
>anything to do with my academic record. I was unaware you
>had to be boring, plain and reserved in your private life
>to be considered intelligent.
>
>As for the whole 'lulz unsubscribe dolt' kind of stuff,
>I've already made vain attempts to do so and it has never
>worked. So my inbox is always clogged with this garbage,
>which is why it was a delayed reaction to another
>scintillating message from Wilson about his sugar baby and
>his upset tummy box. But I'm sure you all look forward to
>Wilson's musings, as this list is a black hole otherwise.
>
>Next time, leave a comment when you visit my myspace.
>Thanks.
>
>On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:36:51 -0400
>   James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA> wrote:
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> > Poster:       James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
> > Subject:      Re: Hi!
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> >
> >>My, what charming language!
> >
> >Funny that she goes off on technical competence but can't
> >figure out
> > how to go to
> >
>http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/ads_l_the_american_dialect_society_email_discussion_list/
> > and read the instructions: "To leave the list at any
> >time, send
> > "SIGNOFF ADS-L" the complete body of an email message
> >from the
> > account which you would like to unsubscribe, to
> > listserv at listserv.uga.edu." Highly intelligent people
> >make slips of
> > the finger all the time, but most of them can find out
> >how to do what
> > they want to do when they really want to do it.
> >
> > I was hoping there would be some fascinating usage in
> >her email to
> > focus on. Perhaps the most interesting question raised
> >is how long
> > "retarded" has been a common childish term of abuse.
> >When I was a kid
> > in the '70s, it was common among elementary and
> >junior-high kids but
> > faded a bit among high-schoolers and was uncommon, if
> >memory serves,
> > among university students (mid-'80s). But that was in
> >Calgary.
> >
> > OED only gives the technical meaning; it doesn't give
> >citations for
> > the abusive meaning. I'm sure a probable date of
> >incipience for the
> > term of abuse could be estimated on the basis of when it
> >came into
> > common usage in the primary-school educational context;
> >there would
> > be some latency, no doubt, before it first appeared in
> >print in that
> > usage, little kids not being much for publishing.
> >
> > As to Ms. Berardinelli I hope some of her professors are
> >on this
> > list. But then they probably know what a sweetheart she
> >is already.
> > Next year, University of New Mexico will unleash this
> >scintillating
> > intellect on the world! (Assuming she doesn't flunk
> >out.) Where, if
> > she's lucky, she'll get her butt kicked enough times by
> >enough people
> > (metaphorically, of course) that she'll smarten up and
> >grow up. She's
> > studying anthropology. How sweet! I just can't wait to
> >see what kind
> > of success she'll have with research when she has no
> >patience or
> > concern for others.
> >
> > (How do I know all this? Because, like anyone at all, I
> >can find it
> > out with the easiest Google search. On her myspace page
> > (blog.myspace.com/gekrepten) she has the headline "i say
> >nothing for
> > the good of myself". Would that it were true.)
> >
> > Ciao,
> > James Harbeck.
> >
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