[Artemisia] Picking linguistic nits OP

Stephanae Baker stephanae at countryrhoades.net
Thu Aug 30 12:53:20 CDT 2007


I would have a clearer idea of how to go about eating a child than  
constructing an urbanite, although I think neither is a task I'd like  
to pursue. :)

Belladonna


On Aug 30, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Bruce Padget wrote:

>
> --- The learned Belladonna mused:
>
>> Do you think a nurse's wanted might be something
>> akin to the FBI's
>> most wanted? What do you think nurses want? My
>> imagination is running
>> wild. It's almost as good as last week when I was
>> editing a letter in
>> which the writer mentioned that the CIO had recently
>> merged with the
>> company. That was pure science fiction for me. But
>> then, my mind does
>> have to find a way to entertain itself in my line of
>> work.
>
> Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw the
> subject "urbanite construction" and couldn't help
> thinking of a new take on Swift's "A Modest Proposal."
>
> Niccolo
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