My close personal friend

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Peter G. write:
>
>Somebody said:
>>     Sorry, TRP and I have a date in Brooklyn to celebrate with my granny,
>>     also born today, and the celebrated author of "Mittelwerk:  These
>>     Fragments I Shore Against My Ruins -- My Adventures on the Pynchon
>>     List."
>
>I say:
>The above is a lie!!! TRP will be out tonight celebrating with me

Well you must be very new to this list, Peter, and greatly in need of certain Crucial 
Information to avoid terminal gaffes: that wasn't *somebody* sir,  who said that, that was 
*that Chris* our own list angel and generally swell person.  Don't mess up again

john m