IVing IV. "Can you read any of this?" p. 277

Joseph Tracy brook7 at sover.net
Mon Nov 30 17:56:33 CST 2009


On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> 276-7 satirizes the then-new health food kind of restaurant...
Specifically it reminds of 7th day Adventist restaurants. They were  
the first to develop a whole soy based American cuisine.  Had a &th  
day friend and ate a fair amount of  the food ad it  was not so  bad  
but kind of pre-blandified.
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> and Penny uses the occasion--"could be construed as a hostile act"
> to bring up the question of pissed-offedness......
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> She rationalizes she was returning a favor. Doc says he is over it.
> Penny says his kind all hate the FBI. Doc protests "I was a junior
> G-Man!"....he has always aspired up?
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> There's a junior G-man allusion in GR, yes?
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