(Note: The following exchange happened after Sam and I had lunch with James "Kibo" Parry and Mike "Wizard of Speed and Time" Jittlov at the People's Cafeteria, a restaurant in Boston's Chinatown. Kibo and Mike both can't stand most seafood, and Sam was fairly seafood-phobic at the time as well.)
Subject: Re: Animal Hunger From: Matt McIrvin <mmcirvin@world.std.com> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 02:42:44 GMT
Samantha Wilkinson <sammie@world.std.com> wrote:
[1] Unlike my mother or sister I have no particular moral indignation over hunting. And I'm not a vegetarian, although I apparently confuse people by ordering vegetable Lo Mein at Chinese restaurants.
That was a sort of Who's-On-First-ish hot potato. I had started out taking some remark of Mike's as signifying that he was a vegetarian, though I already knew perfectly well that he likes to eat extremely well-done meat. I think I then said something that seemingly implied to Kibo and Mike that one of us was vegetarian, though it was unclear precisely who. By the time we got to People's Cafeteria the consensus, by process of elimination, seemed to be that it was you, rather than, in fact, nobody, as was the case.
But the three of you are all unusually picky eaters in other ways, so I suppose it was true in spirit. I should have dragged you all to
All our fish are USDA certified to look, feel, smell, and taste extra fishy! They don't taste like anything other than fish! At no time during your fish-eating experience will you forget how completely the substance you are eating is in fact fish. All fish come with extra bonus eyeballs on the side, to stare at you throughout the meal. Try our special two-headed fish! Our fish come in regular or Extra Bony-- full of tiny fibrous elastic bones guaranteed to lodge sideways in your throat. It's bony fishy goodness! (Extra Bony not available in Shark, Skate or Ray. Try our special Extra Cartilaginous option.) We never offer breaded fried fish because that would dilute the total fish experience.
Boy, is that a fishy fish.
Limited time only-- try our Bowl O'Gills! Still Flipping Around Sashimi! And Landlubber Surprise-- the Menu Item That Sounds Like It Is Not Fish But Is Really Also Fish!
(panicked) Get me out of here!
Why'd you come to Salty's? Arrrr!
Salty MacBarnacle's:
It's the fish-hater's worst nightmare! (TM)
I am currently snickering internally at how MacSOUP sometimes gets fooled by chance repetitions of characters into thinking that some perfectly ordinary letter or combination of letters in a paragraph is a quoted-text indicator that has been mangled by bad line breaks. When you re-wrap the paragraph, it strips the letters off of the beginnings of words and puts them at the left margin. What a maroon! Human beings rule!!!!
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