chopsticks

maa32 · 14 May 2002, 23:20 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) chopsticks
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:20:12 -0700
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I'm not sure if anyone was confused by Apple Blossom's statement in=20
"Underhill", but when she says "there is also my chop-my seal perhaps?" she=
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first talking about saving her chopsticks, then decides to make herself mor=
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important by talking about her seal and defers talk of saving the "the ivor=
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sticks that feed [her]" for a sentence or two.  The joke is that the magica=
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box is a white box of chinese take out food, I guess - if there is a joke a=
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all there. Alas, the mystification of Chinese food in the west seems a majo=
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theme of this story.
Marc Aramini

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