Oblate
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 21 08:26:27 CST 2002
>From: Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>
>
>A pregnant woman presents a prolate form, [...].
>
>A *fat* person will tend to the oblate, like the Michelin Man.
OK, but Dixon's belly is transitioning between the two "one day to the next"
which causes his observers "alarm." I don't think his merely getting fat
would be a cause for alarm, do you?
>Oblate and Prolate are precise terms describing geometrical forms. That
>Mason, or Dixon for that matter, would use them in conversation with one
>another rings true, and the Oblate Sisters needn't be dragged into it...
Oh, but why NOT? No need to be a spoil sport.
Thinking about Dixon's revolving oblate belly, I surmised that maybe he's
about to give birth to the American sport of football!
David Morris
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