IVIV Aunt Reet

[Doug Millison]

"Someday there will be computers for all this"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reet
1. Reet
Similar to 'tard'--an abbreviation used for 'retard' but in a more  
jovial than malicious sense.
Can be coupled with certain nouns to enhance the adjective such as  
Reet Bomb, Reet City, Reetdiculous. The phrase Reet Storm can be used  
to describe a show of emotion from a Reet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treet
Treet is a canned meat product, similar to Spam, that is marketed  
under the brand name Armour Star by the Pinnacle Foods in the USA.  
Treet is made with chicken and pork. Treet has a less greasy texture  
than Spam, more akin to bologna or vienna sausages. Like Spam, it is  
often heated before consumption. This includes frying or baking. Baked  
Treet with ketchup or steak sauce is often referred to as "Treet loaf"  
after meat loaf. Although it is officially a "spiced luncheon loaf",  
Treet is often called "Treet meat". For unknown reasons, possibly  
ingredient costs, Treet is copied for private label luncheon loaf more  
often than Spam. While very popular, and often less expensive than  
Spam, Treet does not have Spam's cult following.[citation needed]
http://www.treet.tv/Welcome to Treet TV!

The creators of SLCN will soon launch Treet TV, the next step forward  
in virtual television.
http://www.reetcomic.co.uk/

http://re.cti.depaul.edu/REET08/

Effective Requirements Engineering (RE) is increasingly recognized as  
a critical component in the success of a software development  
project.  This has led to a growing identification of the importance  
of incorporating significant RE components into the curriculum of  
university degrees in Software Engineering, Computer Science,  
Information Technology and other related areas.…will examine specific  
ideas and techniques for teaching skills needed by an effective  
requirements engineer.

http://www.maplandia.com/belgium/vlaanderen/antwerpen/reet/
Welcome to the Reet google satellite map! This place is situated in  
Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, Belgium, its geographical coordinates are 51°  
6' 0" North, 4° 25' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is  
Reet.

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/616
Remembering Reet and Shine
Two Black Men, One Struggle By Michael Schwalbe

A profile of working-class men and the personas they adopted to cope  
in white society
Matthew Mason and Anthony Atwater, two working-class African Americans  
who lived and died in the American South, led double lives. To family  
and the black community, they were local men, fathers, and companions.  
In the dominant white world, where they earned their wages, they were  
known by their nicknames, Dr. Reet and Shine.

In this dual biography, Michael Schwalbe finds these monikers to be  
both endearing and degrading. Like other black men of their era, Mason  
and Atwater created personas. Mason became "Dr. Reet," a witty  
entertainer to his white employers. Atwater became "Shine," a  
streetwise stud who was skilled in love and violence. Each persona  
seemed like a solution, but bore unanticipated costs.

Grandson of a slave and born to a sharecropping family in 1911, Mason  
worked for fifty years for an all-white aristocratic fraternity,  
though most of his children would go on to professional careers.  
Atwater, born in 1933, showed great promise as a child and had  
ambitions to be an engineer, but by middle age had brought himself  
close to ruin. Both men struggled with alcoholism, both men created  
personas to help cope with the strains of their lives, and both men  
emerged from years of emotional turmoil to find peace.

Mixing biography, memoir, and journalism, Remembering Reet and Shine  
delves into the southern past, following Mason and Atwater as they  
age, decline, and die. It also explores the great contradiction of  
American manhood that arises between the expectation of control and  
the reality of powerlessness. This moving account does not herald  
heroes or saints, but raises the profile of ordinary men trying to  
reconcile the demands of manhood with the limits imposed by social  
forces beyond their control.

Michael Schwalbe is a professor of sociology at North Carolina State  
University. He is the author of The Sociologically Examined Life and  
Unlocking the Iron Cage: The Men's Movement, Gender Politics, and  
American Culture.