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  "thread": {
    "id": 2992,
    "subject": "A couple of Marc's comments...",
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    "first": "2002-02-25T18:44:46+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-25T18:44:46+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-226@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-25T18:44:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) A couple of Marc's comments...",
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          "text": "Marc writes..."
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "It makes sense of why the narrator needs to find Seawrack, the spy of\nthe mother who jeopardizes the fate of mankind.  "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "H'mmmm.... it also occurs to me that, if we grant your hypothesis, it\nsimplifies the connection between the Mother and Scylla-of-Urth: they're\nthe same \"person.\" "
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "An eponym is also a word that comes from someone's name, like sandwiches\nor\njohns/crappers (according to urban legend, anyway). I was trying to figure\nout what eponym might help solve that scene.  Regalio says his real name\nis\nRoger, but that means very little to me.  Roger?"
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          "text": "Well, someone else mentioned \"roger\" in radio-ese: basically means \"I \nunderstand\" (and \"roger wilco\" is \"I understand and WILl COmply\"). But \nwhat immediately comes to my mind is that \"to roger\" is an old British \nslang verb, roughly meaning \"to fuck,\" but not quite as high on the \nobscenity scale - probably about level with \"bugger\" for shock value, \ni.e., very little.\n\nNot that this helps very much."
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