Re: Off-topic: X la franXaise

["Fredric Gross" fredric.gross@xxxxxxxx]

Catching up on old mail.

Those remarkable coincidences could lead one to bulbitate.

Fred Gross


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Distefano" 
To: "XyWrite List" 
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: Off-topic: X la franXaise


>
> Reply to note from Patricia M Godfrey  Mon, 22
> Sep 2003 11:31:54 -0400
>
> > "IRC" ( a blend of  `keyboard,' and
> >  `chattering').
>
> Department of Weird Coincidences: When this arrived, I was in the
> middle of the chapter in "The Bonfire of the Vanities" that
> describes a dinner party of the frozen-smile, empty-chitchat
> variety, hosted by Mr. & Mrs. Bavardage.
>
> Reminds me of the time a friend of mine, a writer, mentioned out of
> the blue how he could never remember what "rebarbative" meant. An
> hour later the word pops up in the novel I'm reading on the way
> home. (Something by A.S. Byatt -- was it "The Matisse Stories"?)
>
> Side note re the Subject header of this message (which appears above
> as received here, and as reported at XySearch): At least one
> subscriber's mail server bounced the entire message because the
> header included accented characters. Others X'ed out the high-order
> characters, as above. C'est la guerre.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
> http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/
>