Who is HAG, and why has he paid for my lunch...

Craig Clark CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Wed Nov 6 08:59:42 CST 1996


HAG writes:
 
> Who are you gratuitously calling a nice person, Craigie-baby? (You 
> cradle-snatching, gossip-mongering, menthol-smoking sad excuse for a bad 
> Pig Bodine imitation...). 

Spoken like a rugby-player, foax (which is what our friend looks like 
- not a hint of intellectual about him). Oh, and a jealous one at that 
(the "cradle-snatcher" dig...)

> Oh, and did you realise that the only non-Zululander
> at our table, a certain faded blonde sitting at the far end of the table, 
> has for years been sleeping with (one of) the UND person(s) you layed 
> into so viciously? I found out much later, but if I had only known how 
> you would slander my hard-earned reputation as flame chef extraordinaire 
> by calling me "a really nice person" I would not have warned you, then, 
> maybe, probably (grumble, spit).

I won't risk further legal sanction by replying publicly to this 
(though I've sent HAG my private speculations on the matter). Yeah, 
sorry, I was wrong - HAG is not a very nice person at all (though in 
the plus column he did pay for my lunch and beer...)

> Anyway, when does your Mtunzini Cheap Housing Project take off?

Soon as I can detach some well-meaning donor from their money.
 
> For when is your initial exploratory expedition planned? 

Ditto.

> And what don't you drink?

Bad whiskey.


Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"



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