Re: Beat me, spank me, make me write bad checks

Hactar

unread,

Feb 18, 2013, 11:44:46 AM2/18/13

to

In article <253990807382895739.72059...@news.eternal-september.org>,
David J. Martin <djmarti...@tamu.edu> wrote:
> Sano <gregs.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > David J. Martin <djmarti...@tamu.edu> wrote in
> > news:1931487659382894461.32527...@news.eternal-se
> > ptember.org:
> >
> >> Peter Boulding <pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
> >>> Loads of Google hits, but can't find an attribution:
> >>>
> >>> Who said--or sang, or wrote--"Beat me, spank me, make me write bad
> >>> checks"?
> >>
> >> Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks?
> >>
> >> http://artists.letssingit.com/black-47-lyrics-oh-maureen-7kr8r18
> >
> > Yeah I'm familiar with this one. I mention it to (much) younger
> > cow-orkers and they look at me funny. Most of them do anyway, heh
> > heh.
>
> There is also Whip me, beat me, call me Edna.
>
> In grad school I had a friend who would say "whip me, beat me, call me
> Ruth". Since my mother-in-law is Ruth it added an odd spin to it.

Huh, so is mine. Are you sure you're not me? I mean, nobody has seen us
together.

--
-eben QebWe...@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
LIBRA: A big promotion is just around the corner for someone
much more talented than you. Laughter is the very best medicine,
remember that when your appendix bursts next week. -- Weird Al

David J. Martin

unread,

Feb 18, 2013, 2:09:14 PM2/18/13

to

Hactar <ebenZ...@verizon.net> wrote:
> In article <253990807382895739.72059...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> David J. Martin <djmarti...@tamu.edu> wrote:
>> Sano <gregs.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> David J. Martin <djmarti...@tamu.edu> wrote in
>>> news:1931487659382894461.32527...@news.eternal-se
>>> ptember.org:
>>>
>>>> Peter Boulding <pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Loads of Google hits, but can't find an attribution:
>>>>>
>>>>> Who said--or sang, or wrote--"Beat me, spank me, make me write bad
>>>>> checks"?
>>>>
>>>> Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks?
>>>>
>>>> http://artists.letssingit.com/black-47-lyrics-oh-maureen-7kr8r18
>>>
>>> Yeah I'm familiar with this one. I mention it to (much) younger
>>> cow-orkers and they look at me funny. Most of them do anyway, heh
>>> heh.
>>
>> There is also Whip me, beat me, call me Edna.
>>
>> In grad school I had a friend who would say "whip me, beat me, call me
>> Ruth". Since my mother-in-law is Ruth it added an odd spin to it.
>
> Huh, so is mine. Are you sure you're not me? I mean, nobody has seen us
> together.

So which of us is the sock puppet?

David

Hactar

unread,

Feb 18, 2013, 3:56:25 PM2/18/13

to

In article <1498291620382907331.49197...@news.eternal-september.org>,

I think we trade off. MWF it's me, TuThSa it's you, and we take Su off.

Greg Goss

unread,

Feb 19, 2013, 2:17:45 PM2/19/13

to

ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar) wrote:

>David J. Martin <djmarti...@tamu.edu> wrote:

>> In grad school I had a friend who would say "whip me, beat me, call me
>> Ruth". Since my mother-in-law is Ruth it added an odd spin to it.
>
>Huh, so is mine. Are you sure you're not me? I mean, nobody has seen us
>together.

That's MY mother's name. Is one of you the reincarnation of my first
wife?
--
I used to own a mind like a steel trap.
Perhaps if I'd specified a brass one, it
wouldn't have rusted like this.

David J. Martin

unread,

Feb 19, 2013, 2:50:12 PM2/19/13

to

Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> wrote:
> ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar) wrote:
>> David J. Martin <djmarti...@tamu.edu> wrote:
>
>>> In grad school I had a friend who would say "whip me, beat me, call me
>>> Ruth". Since my mother-in-law is Ruth it added an odd spin to it.
>>
>> Huh, so is mine. Are you sure you're not me? I mean, nobody has seen us
>> together.
>
> That's MY mother's name. Is one of you the reincarnation of my first
> wife?

Must be him. I'm too old to be her.

David