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  "thread": {
    "id": 655,
    "subject": "META: a life of its own",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-23T12:10:04+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-23T12:10:04+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0092@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Damien Broderick",
        "address": "damien at ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-23T12:10:04+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) META: a life of its own",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": " i've only been here a brief time, but i assume from the responses to my\nsuzanne collage suggestion that some list members are concerned about being\nmisquoted off the list.  quite so.  i've just had the mildly entertaining\nexperience of being lampooned by selective quotation, in the sig file of\nsomeone with the opposite caps problem to me.  my response got the\nfollowing reply.  anyone here responsible, he asked wearily?\n\ndamien\n\n\n \nSubject:      Re: read my slip (was: Re: Galaxy IV Satellite Hacked?)\nFrom:         nospamum at radix.net (MegaLiz)\nDate:         1998/05/22\nMessage-ID:   <3565a169.705315158 at news1.radix.net>\nNewsgroups:   alt.conspiracy,alt.fan.art-bell,alt.slack\n                                             \n\n\nDamien Broderick <damien at ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:\n \n: um, i suppose you *did* notice that the post you've filched this from had\nits \n: tongue as far into its cheek as you can get without putting your eye out?\n\nOh my, yes! I quoted it not ONLY for its pretentiousness, but for its\nability to make my eyeballs vibrate unpredictably. It's just THAT\nCOOL. Not to mention that it even has the ability to BREED!\n\n: and i'm wondering where you found it - i posted versions to two \n: subscription-only lists.\n\nI got it from a SUBSCRIBER, naturally. He liked it TOO! Of course, now\nI'M wondering how you found ME on alt.squack...\n\n: sorry for the lack of caps - i've just had surgery on one hand\n\nPoor Damien! You will be shifty again in no time, I'm pretty sure.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------\n\"I found this entire scene extremely gratifying, at once a\nmetonymy of the process and evidence of a new and refreshing \nrelaxation of out-moded shibboleths.\" --Damien Broderick"
        },
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          "kind": "sig",
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          "text": "\"Boy-howdy, them vocabularies make me wheeze shibboleths!\"\n--\n\"Metonymy is a term popularized, if that's the term, by Roman \nJakobson--linguist and guiding light to many post-modern thinkers, \nsuch as Levi-Strauss--you can be fairly sure that someone \nusing it is not really sure of what it means.\" -- My dad\n--\n\"I found this entire scene extremely gratifying, at once a \nmetonymy of the prostate and evidence of a new and refreshing \nrelaxation of the sphincter.\"-- Dave Lynch as Damien Broderick\n--\n\"1) Levi-Strauss was not a postmodernist; 2) Roman Jakobson has \nlittle influence on postmodernists; 3) some of us actually do \nknow what metonymy means -- we're just not telling.\"--Dan Clore\n--\n\"Meg's sig, as of her last post, exceeds the average limp\nschmenke's length\" -- axel heyst\n--\n\"It's not nice to make up words named after towns in Maine, \nyou know.\"-- Mutha Naycha P-Lil\n--\n\"sorry for the lack of caps - i've just had surgery on my \ndamien broderick.\" -- MegaLiz as little d damien"
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