Path: ewrotcd!feed-ewrotcd!pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Colin Batchelor Newsgroups: oxbridge.tat Subject: Re: Supermarkets (was Re: The post-tatmeet thread, via Sweeteners and +Toothpaste) Date: 24 Jul 2001 15:25:39 +0100 Organization: Milton and Hamiltonians mdm1004@cus.cam.ac.uk (M.D. Mackey) writes: > I was afraid that it would only be useful for veganny things. In. The. Name. Of. The. Wee. Man. Do they put C++ in the flaming water across there or something? You're all bloody obsessed with tedious tedious self-identification (which is a phrase I've only picked up from your sort). Is x goth? Is x vegan? Is x a member of the coitus saxonicus-practising perky jojoba subtribe? It's the language of the personal ad. VW endowed lactoveg^n w/ fries, TFTLTH WLTM NBG HORSE bouncy metaller. Now I realize where this Cambridge craze for initialisms came from. Self-help through classification. Men are from Bliss, Women are from Dewey Decimal. Fair, becoming good later.