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[John Bailey]

Re: "'B12'-deficient customers"

I've had B12 shots. Because of the nature of factory farming and
industrial agriculture, you can't get it on a vegetarian diet these
days (used to be different). The body stores it for about 6-8 years or
so, though, so most vegetarians don't notice for a long time if
they're running low.

On the other hand, my Doc told me that Margaret Thatcher (not a vego
as far as I know) used to have a B12 shot before every major speech
she gave. Bit of a Tubeside-style pick me up.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> Keith wrote:
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>> On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
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>> True but if you look up the address of the LAX Imperial Terminal it's 6601
>> WEST Imperial Highway (no 'the') which is why I was confused.
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>> PS--But correct me again if I'm totally out to lunch.
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>> :-)
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>> Of course they don't put 'the' in a written address, but conversationally,
>> or in a sentence from a narrator like in IV, it would always have 'the.'
>> Furthermore, in the postmodern usage of Menippean satire it is considered
>> appropriate to abbreviate concepts, but not to omit articles.
>>
>> (In addition, I haven't been correcting you, but giving further support to
>> your original position.)
>>
>> However, if you MapQuest the airport you will see that both the East and
>> West Imperial Highways are south of the airport, just east of East and West
>> Imperial Avenue (which may continue to run alongside and/or beneath the
>> freeway). The reference to Watts is from someone's erroneous Wikipedia entry
>> and is not mentioned at all by Pynchon in IV. Therefore, the issue of the
>> missing article becomes the defining matter, one that is black and white and
>> not subject to interpretation except from the perspective of some obscure
>> Eastern philosophical perspectives, most to which I subscribe rendering me
>> in further agreement with all positions you have taken henceforth and a
>> priori.
>>
>>
>>
> For which I am most appreciative. :-)
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> I was a pre-freeway denizen of the old town but haven't been there since
> 9/11.
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> Pynchon a couple times has mentioned the poor engineering of the Pasadena
> and knows you can't really drive 100 on it in any kind of vehicle.
> Actually it wasn't the engineers' fault but rather that of the land
> grabbers. They didn't have the power back then to acquire even a roughly
> straight swath of land.
> Ah, youth,
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