Today's projection of a fantasy world via a word. "Weaponize" and more accurate phrasing.

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 17:31:27 UTC 2022


Getting very NP, here. But back the 80s fans of the forever losing New
Orleans Saints we’re called “Ain’ts,” and wore paper bag masks to games for
the anonymity of SHAME rather than FAME.

https://www.nola.com/sports/saints/article_0f29702b-7aca-5d24-ad35-9cbc502b9ed5.html
Saints fans in the 1980s--a whole lotta heartache
Wearing an "Ain'ts" bag on his head. Local sports radio personality Buddy
Diliberto started the "bighead" craze when he wore one. The team went 1-15
that year.


On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:58 AM Martin Dietze <mdietze at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 at 17:43, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I do not know why Martin is on this list
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> That's easy. See here:
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> I'm the guy with the Cardiacs T-Shirt.
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> By the way I have not yet read BE which is going to be my next read.
>
> It has taken me some time to get back into reading fiction and allow me
> catching up with TP, more precisely with his last 2 books.
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