AtD begins inexorably to influence the broader culture / herbcraft and logic

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 02:25:59 CDT 2007


On 4/1/07, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> OMG!    (lol!  at the Cretan Dittany)
>
> At 6:17 PM +0000 4/1/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:
> >anybody see the Sally Forth cartoon a few days ago, where the friend
> >asks Sally, "How long since you and your husband have, uh, played
> >
> >AtD p. 158 "My cousin knows any number of girls who wouldn't mind
> >Parcheesi?"> >playing a little parcheesi with you..."

http://www.killerclips.com/clip.php?id=37&qid=1795&PHPSESSID=09392192a07a42d9bf22901c6de92cd8

... but that euphemism seems to pre-exist both AtD and SF, will see
what I can find ..

> >ok, the Vibe cousin, Dittany, right?
> >and the logic puzzle on p 164
> >Fleetwood: in fact you shouldn't trust anything I have to say about
> >this family
> >ok, so he's a Cretan and all Cretans are liars,
> >but then so Dittany is a Cretan, making her Cretan Dittany
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dittany_of_Crete

Very, very good.   To what effect, I'm not sure, but ...

Well, I suspect there's a LOT of that going on in here.  Layers ...



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