pissing
kevin at limits.org
kevin at limits.org
Tue Oct 3 09:12:50 CDT 2000
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 17:52:04 -0700
> From: "cj hurtt" <cj6 at casco.net>
> Subject: Re: VV (1): Commentary II- the Inanimate
> >
> This is true but we do have two instances of people pissing on/in inanimate
> objects. we got a drunken sailor on 9 releiving himself in a Packard
> Patrician (Patrick?) gas tank and Benny thinking he would like to piss out
> the sun on page 26.
>
Well, you've gotta wonder if the sun qualifies as an inamimate object
along the lines of Rachel's MG....
There's also a funny bit in "Entropy" where the sailors are singing a
shanty titled "Let's All Go Down and Piss on the _Forrestal_." (Said ship
was, I believe, used for training.)
Kevin Troy
"If compassionate conservatives don't know the meaning of 'is,' how will
they handle the more important helping verbs?"
--Peter Weyler, quoted in _Modern Humorist_
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