What's the connection, "Don't ring the doorbell, I've just taken my
viagra?"  Ruth






At 12:03 PM -0500 1/29/04, Lawrence Kestenbaum wrote:
>"Doorbell heterogeneity."  As someone who has done extensive door-to-door
>political campaigning, this brings many images to mind.  Not only is every
>house different, every door different, but every doorbell is different.
>
>Sometimes the muffled sound of the doorbell, as heard on the front porch
>or stoop, gives a hint of the resident's personality: slow melodic chimes,
>etherial bong, ringing schoolbell, brisk buzzer.  Or perhaps it says more
>about the ambitions of the builder or developer who shaped the houses to
>express a marketable concept, a New Neighborhood (at the time) as
>inventive in its way as a New Town.
>
>So you can imagine that my interest was piqued when I received an email
>message this morning with a subject of "doorbell heterogeneity".
>
>Hmmm, a campaign volunteer?  A Pinhead contacting me backchannel?  An Ann
>Arbor historic district issue?
>
>Alas, none of these.  It was only an ad for generic viagra.
>
>                               Larry
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