Re: SLPAD - 139 - “Entropy” - 3

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Buck Mulligan didn't saunter through my first impression of Meatball.
Mulligan didn't even register.  That fellow from Animal House did though,
and he was plump.

A lease-breaking party would be going out with a bang, if we're talking
cosmologickly.  I always think of entropy as being what science thinks the
way the whole universe will go.



On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:02 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> “DOWNSTAIRS, Meatball Mulligan’s lease-breaking party was moving into its
> 40th hour.”
>
> a) Rather than “in medias res”, we start out (at least by implication)
> upstairs from some action
>
> b) which is going to look a little like “party at Pirate’s place” from GR,
> with Mulligan in a sleeping position similar to one later assumed by Teddy
> Bloat
>
> c) also, one might allow “stately, plump, Buck Mulligan” to saunter through
> one’s 1st impression here
>
> d) Meatball Mulligan - slightly more dignified, sobriquet-wise, than
> Lardass Levine? Mm - maybe.
>
> e) lease-breaking party - is that a thing? Scrolling down thru a search, of
> the first 50 items, 90% or so refer to this story’s description.
> But other references do show up, so apparently it’s a known strategy.
> Seems counterproductive, not designed to foster goodwill or good credit
> ratings.
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