Quite an essay, I'd say.

Jim

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> 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
>