From: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin)
Subject: Re: Frame name game
Date: 23 Dec 1997 00:00:00 GMT
Organization: Software Tool & Die, Brookline MA
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology

Roger Douglas <Roger.Douglas@removethis.tafensw.edu.au> wrote:

On 22 Dec 1997 22:25:21 GMT, lots42@aol.com (Lots42) wrote:

"If you define and name a frame, you can then reference that frame directly by using the frame's name."

It's magic. The Naming of Things. When you Name something you have Power over it. Same as when you make an Image of it. Then you really have its Soul in the palm of your hand.

Frame frame bobame
bananafana foframe
Fee fi momame
Fraaame

So if you frame the image and name the frame then you can add the name to the great List of Names, which itself has no name (except the one name which we dare not say. But if we name it instead The One Name Which We Dare Not Say, is that not then its Name? Which means we dare

(Imagine a lot of women with beehives and men with Nehru jackets doing the twist about right here.)

not say it? OK, too hard, let's come back to that later.) And what of He that knows the Names of All Things That Know Not Their Own Names? Does He Know His Own Name? Or does He dodge the issue by wearing a beard?

(from Verse Thirty-Seven:)

If the concept of naming seems far too mundane,
what about the simplest concept that lacks any name
or description in a stupid novelty song
or a verse of it that might be only singably long?

Russell Russell bobussell
bananafana fofussell
Fee fi momussell
Russell!

(Verses Thirty-Eight through Seventy develop the formal system of Nipsy Russell and Gilligan Whitehead's Principia Mathematica.)

BBC World Service is now explaining what a "Web link" is.

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