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To: snarks_when_bored

---if he nods and smiles in agreement when a co-worker says to him, "Looks like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!---

An "Office Space" fan! Did you know the military now refers to the rows of medals and other battle ribbons/theater citations of old ("fruit salad" ) as "flair?" Honest!

Milton Waddams


7 posted on 07/09/2005 7:33:08 AM PDT by Frank Sheed
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To: Frank Sheed; maryz; ninenot; Diago; NYer
My memory re-wrote the line, I regret to say. It should've read:

"Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays!"

But this gives me a chance to make a comment about the use of the word 'homo' in my earlier post. Some might regard it as pejorative, but I don't. Homosexual men regularly refer to themselves as 'queer', which, to my ears, sounds quite negative. On the other hand, I deplore the use of the word 'gay' as an adjective describing a homosexual; 'gay' has had its original meaning completely displaced by politically correct style mandarins. I wonder what young people think nowadays when they first hear about 'The Gay Nineties' (if they do) or notice that Nietzsche wrote a book entitled The Gay Science (if they do)?

In any case, my earlier post was offered as a small amusement at the slight (but good-natured) expense of a certain segment of humanity. If there ever comes a time when the offense police suppress all such amusements, humor will have breathed its last.

P.S. to Frank: that Cool Hand Luke line is a great one, indeed. Here's the absolutely precise rendering of it:

"What we have here...is failure...to communicate."

For a long time, I thought there was an 'a' before 'failure', but there isn't. Another great Strother Martin line reading...

12 posted on 07/09/2005 8:44:27 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: Frank Sheed

I forgot to say thanks for that interesting fact about 'flair'. I hadn't heard that!


14 posted on 07/09/2005 8:48:44 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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