ATTN: Buettner

Ben Wolfson

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May 21, 2004, 1:19:17 AM5/21/04

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Or anyone else who's called me a fop or dandy in the past. Does Buettner
even read this place anymore? I haven't checked in in a while. I was just
praising sambuca to a friend and she told me that my taste in liquors "are
rather ... foppish". (I tried to protest that it's both a digestif and a
liqueur, and therefore doesn't reflect taste in liquor, but I think that
having a taste in either of those things might itself be foppish.) Also,
in searching for past threads in which I was called a fop or dandy to show
her, I encountered this:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3F6B295E.23D7%40yahoo.com&output=gplain>
post by madge. I actually once seriously contemplated buying wax to make
my goatee pointier, and a straight razor too (for a different
purpose).

But I maintain that the shabbiness of my dress and manners completely
inoculates me from the charge of being a fop or dandy.

JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

--
Ben Wolfson
"I lie in the road try to trip up the passing cars.
Yes, me and the hedgehog we bursting the tyres all day."

Jeremy D. Impson

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May 21, 2004, 3:31:48 PM5/21/04

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On Fri, 21 May 2004, Ben Wolfson wrote:

> [...] I actually once seriously contemplated buying wax to make my

> goatee pointier, and a straight razor too (for a different purpose).

Man, Kibologists' fetishes are getting scarier and scarier.

--Jeremy

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The Avocado Avenger

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May 21, 2004, 7:53:33 PM5/21/04

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Ben Wolfson wrote:

> I was just
> praising sambuca to a friend and she told me that my taste in liquors "are
> rather ... foppish". (I tried to protest that it's both a digestif and a
> liqueur

Good move, Ben. She calls you a fop, you use the word "digestif".
Might as well get the big hat with the feathers out RIGHT NOW.

> But I maintain that the shabbiness of my dress and manners completely
> inoculates me from the charge of being a fop or dandy.
>
> JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

We're all believing you RIGHT NOW.

Stacia

Ben Allard

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May 21, 2004, 8:07:09 PM5/21/04

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The Avocado Avenger <sta...@io.com> wrote:
> Ben Wolfson wrote:

>> But I maintain that the shabbiness of my dress and manners completely
>> inoculates me from the charge of being a fop or dandy.
>>
>> JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.
>
> We're all believing you RIGHT NOW.

Believing you with OUR FISTS!

--
Ben
I YEARN FOR THE ESTEEM OF STRANGE ROBOTS.

Daniel Buettner

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May 22, 2004, 4:58:59 PM5/22/04

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Ben Wolfson <wol...@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Or anyone else who's called me a fop or dandy in the past. Does Buettner
> even read this place anymore?

Nope!

> I haven't checked in in a while.

Me neither! Not that anyone noticed.

> I actually once seriously contemplated buying wax to make
> my goatee pointier, and a straight razor too (for a different
> purpose).

Did this have anything to do with wanting people to call you
Raskolnikov?

> But I maintain that the shabbiness of my dress and manners completely
> inoculates me from the charge of being a fop or dandy.
>
> JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

WHAT! EVER! You foppish coxcomb!!

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Ben Wolfson

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May 22, 2004, 11:44:26 PM5/22/04

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On Fri, 21 May 2004 18:53:33 -0500, The Avocado Avenger wrote:

> Ben Wolfson wrote:
>
>> I was just
>> praising sambuca to a friend and she told me that my taste in liquors "are
>> rather ... foppish". (I tried to protest that it's both a digestif and a
>> liqueur
>
> Good move, Ben. She calls you a fop, you use the word "digestif".
> Might as well get the big hat with the feathers out RIGHT NOW.

That's what it is, though!