The Flintstones

[still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made]

On Fri, 2 May 1997, Jules Siegel wrote:
> At 05:25 PM 05/2/97 -0400, still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was
> made <traveler at afn.org> wrote:
> Try working on your hopelessly contrived address. No wonder you can't think
> straight. You're caught in some kind of logical trap that you're trying to
> pass off as a humorous oxymoron -- looking for something that never was and
> couldn't be in the terms you state it. Keep jokes like that short if you
> want them to be effective. And leave rap to the rappers. You haven't got the
> touch. Reminds me of a WASP trying to imitate Myron Cohen ordering a
> pastrami on white toast with mayo. 

It's a quote, of provenance neither African- or Jewish-American.  Its author
is actually a well-known Dubliner (no, not that one).

I think there may be a reference to a ko'an in there somewhere...

Max

 M a x i m u s  D a v i d  C l a r k e | There's a lot of bullshit in
          http://www.afn.org/~traveler | rock 'n' roll, but some of 
                 "Surrealist-At-Large" | the bullshit is pretty
                      traveler at afn.org | cool.  --Bono