You've become very confusing Ralph.  But, you've obviously been dealing 
with adverse conditions.  So, the confusion is accepted.

-jc



On May 20, 2004, at 9:00 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> In a message dated 5/20/2004 8:18:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> Them New Englander's don't need your help to keep their sense of
> impotence properly inflated. Uhhhh, OK, John.
>
> (My midwesterness is not an accident of birth, it is the result of
> wanting to avoid being placed in the stocks.) All I know is that many 
> years ago before (I think before) she decided she wanted to become 
> the-ex-Mrs. Ralph, both She (a native Chicagolander and longtime 
> resident of Oak Park) and her friend Mighty Quiet Phil With the Slight 
> Odor Problem (who as you know is also the painter of the world famous 
> masonite cows, and who hails from Winnetka, IL) both referred 
> independently to someone or something as being "so midwestern" in a 
> decidedly pejorative way.
> I suggest that you get out before you're tempted to buy some rot- and 
> termite-infested dump.  Despite the Protocols of the Learned Elders of 
> Pinheaddom recently seen in thsi space, She has been reassured by 
> the 'sterminator that all will be well.
>  
> Usually, I say "go fuck yourself," but in this case I'll make an 
> exception and say "go figure."