From a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK Wed Sep 27 05:04:53 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_0_3); 27 Sep 2000 12:04:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 5013 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2000 12:04:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Sep 2000 12:04:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta2 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2000 12:04:52 -0000 Received: from redskins.uclan.ac.uk (actually host exc-gw1.uclan.ac.uk) by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer) with ESMTP; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:52:32 +0100 Received: by exc-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1461.28) id <3W4B8N7W>; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:05:15 +0100 To: lojban@egroups.com, pycyn@aol.com Subject: RE: [lojban] RE: Re:RE: beggars Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:01:00 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1461.28) From: A Rosta > From: pycyn@aol.com > > << >And sodomites are prohibited from fellatio. > > .uanaicai >> > > Old joke: "Buggers can't be chewers" Mix a little sex into the spam for a > totally tasteful mess -- and generate MUCH more mail. Well, in the spirit of generating off-topic mail, could I ask what currency "chew(er)" has, in this sense? I've only come across it in Golding's superb Rites of Passage trilogy, where the reader realizes what had happened only when a character mmisconstrues "I never thought I'd get a chew off a parson" as a chew of tobacco. When I was growing up, a _chewy_ was what you'd call a _hickey_. (Also, irrelevantly, it's best known sense in England is 'chewing gum'.) --And.