maximum paranoia

John Lundy jlundy at gyk.com.au
Thu Sep 20 20:46:45 CDT 2001


Jasper,

The Concise Oxford Dictionary goes with "jingoistic", you owe the man a 
double apology.  One for being wrong and one for the initial pedantry!

On Friday, 21 September 2001 07:09, Jasper Fidget [SMTP:fakename at tokyo.com] 
wrote:
> Dr. Eldon Tyrell is a character in the movie Blade Runner.  He is a
> reclusive genius robotics / artificial intelligence scientist who created
> the "replicants" (androids) that the protagonist has to kill.  The
> replicants see him as their father / god, and visit him (uninvited) to 
ask
> why their lives were designed to be so short and whether there's any way 
to
> cheat their deaths.  I don't know what Bizarro was getting at--I stopped
> reading his email when I saw the word jingoistic (I think he meant
> "jingoistical" or perhaps "jingoisticalist").
>
> Jasper Fidget
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <calbert at hslboxmaster.com>
> To: <D.Bizarro at gmx.net>
> Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: maximum paranoia
>
>
> > D.Bizarro at gmx.net:
> >
> > > Well let?s dip into the deep shit of this loony perspective:
> > > Let?s say that Bush and some jingoistic Eldon Tyrrel,
> >
> > Who the H. is Eldon Tyrrel?  Are you referring to R. Emmitt Tyrrell?
> >
> > Does it matter?
> >
> > love,
> > cfa
> >



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