Gender language

[George Haberberger]

At 10:54 AM 11/28/96 GMT+0200, Craig Clark wrote:
>My fellow subject of the Kingdom of KwaZulu,  Hartwin Alfred 
>Gebhardt <hag at iafrica.com>, writes:
>
>> Looking at you people up north from down here, you know, not very 
>> flattering - knobbly knees and such. And then all that painfully 
>> constipated PASSION! Us REAL AFRICANS, despite occassionally SHOUTING 
>> VERY LOUDLY!! are generally much more relaxed. Learn form us in the 
>> spirit of Ubuntu!! reject the imperial-colonial misuse of the third 
>> person plural!! And then, maybe, you'll all be MUCH HAPPIER!! In fact 
>> IN FACT!! maybe YOU PEOPLE IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SHOULD ALL JUST 
>> SHUT UP!!! JUST FOR A WEEK, OR EIGHT DAYS MEBBE...
>
>Psst! HAG! They're all off on Thanksgiving! This is our chance!What 
>say you we take over this list and dedicate it henceforwards to 
>discussing the "cultural work" ("poetry" is *such* a bourgeois and 
>Eurocentric term, divorcing the cultural worker from the rest of the 
>working class) of the Mayibuye Cultural Workers' Collective?
>
>Craig Clark
>

Well, some of us email junkies get it at home, so we can download our mail
anyday/time of the year. Also, I do work the occasional holiday, being in a
job that provides around the clock technical support.

But I digress, feel free to take over the list, I'm involved with my own
Pynchonian issues, being held in a state of bondage by the two females I
share my house with, getting ready for a white-trash invasion of one of
Rochester's tonier suburbs (you bring the guns and cigars Frank, I'll bring
the beer, auto parts and Jeff Foxworthy CD's, and oh yeah, the pus pudding),
and denying involvement in an exclusive mailing list that's rumored to
control a large newsgroup. Oh yeah, the last one is a joke, don't believe
it, I didn't say it.

George