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Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU
Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:26:47 -0800


List,

WELL!  I NEVER!

Upun my word that's some of the most silvertongued drivel I've heard since
Doug Larson "left" Steinway.

My retort - which, I sincerely hope you knew was coming:

	In the beginning, the Universe was created.  This has made a lot of people
very angry,
	and been widely regarded as a bad move.

PPHHBBBBBTTTTTT!!!!!


Horace


At 08:21 PM 2/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Andre;
>In a message dated 2/14/97 7:29:33 PM, you wrote:
><<Would you be so kind to explain in detail what        F***      means?
>I am so curious!>>
>
> Although you wrote this to Barrie in response to his post I am sure that the
>Staid English reserved nature, as displayed so well by Barrie, will prevent
>him from answering this question. So although it is rather presumptuous of me
>to attempt to reply for him, I think I know exactly the four letter word that
>he referred to. Actually it was developed as a technical term by 'red neck'
>technicians in the South of this country.
> The word of course is "FRAM", verb/adjective/noun, rather interchangably.
>"FRAM"-meaning to strike a hard blow or make a decisive movement toward
>something. 'I frammed home the hammer shank into the hammer butt."
>Fram has many uses and many of them are rather idiomatic, such as that damn
>frammer! ,or this frammer won't fit!
>see also; Frammed, Frammer, Frammee, Framming, and in the most often heard
>usage in politics "I don't Framming believe it !"
> As to "Bonkers" and "Framming" just remember you can 'fram' with a 'bonker'
>but you can't 'bonk' with a 'frammer', unless you break your 'bonker'- then
>it becomes that "framming bonker"!
> Andre I do hope I have cleared up this momentary confusion for you. :-)
>And Barrie I do hope you will forgive my interceding here. ;-)
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>P.S.I was inspired to this by Horace so any blame or adverse comments should
>be sent directly to him.  hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Horace Greeley)
>
>
>
>
Horace Greeley

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