Well played, my friend.

"perspiciuridity"? -- even better.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
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On 9/26/2009 11:51 AM David Beierl wrote:

> At 08:44 PM 9/25/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> * Didn't a young woman traveling alone in a Vanagon run into something
>> horrible[*] at a rest stop just a few years ago?
>
> For you and me it was just a few years ago -- and I'm only** rising 59.
> Guess that tells us something about Joy's age. ;-)
>
> d
>
> * If you call dying horrible.  No doubt she went through some
> unpleasantness first.
> ** Compared to your August Age, of course.  To the 20-year-olds I'm
> already dead.***
> *** So there.  Put *that* in your pipe**** and smoke it.
> **** A figurative pipe, of course.  One would not presume to assume your
> favored route of administration*****
> ***** ;-> ******
> ****** An "emoticon," commonly called a "smiley."*******
> ******* In this case of course it's an "evil winkie." ********
> ******** As you no doubt knew already.
> PS -- you couldn't possibly win this competition,********* if I stopped
> putting mine in-line, enclosed in double-hyphens or parentheses.  And
> maybe my stuff would be more readable if I did...
> PPS -- but I'll be happy to nominate you, if you send a nomination form
> and a properly addressed stamped envelope.
> ********* Of course if you choose to take that as a challenge, all bets
> are off.  Sciurids********** are well-known for pique, persistence and
> perspicuity (perspiciuridity?), and perhaps pschadenfreude.  And ability
> to dodge behind the branch in the time it takes a .22 bullet to travel
> fifty feet.
> ********** Eudora's spell-checker doesn't like this.  It suggests
> "Spirits," "Stupids" and "Scourers" as alternatives.
>
> Love,
> David
>