--- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > --- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Deborah Harrell wrote:

> > > > Lo, these many years ago, in college Organic
> > > > Chemistry, I and a friend created the 'O-chem
> > >>Personality Wheel,' with categories from
> > Ortho-normal...on to Para-normal...and Epi-normal;
> > > > Abi-normals were of course those too weird to
> > > relate even to D&Ders or SCAers!  ;D
> > > > Debbi
> > > > Meta-normal Herself Maru  :)

> > >       I give, what does meta-normal mean then?
 
> > <LOL>
> > Well, as my friends and I didn't want to consider
> > ourselves 'normal' 'weird' *or* 'sedate,'
> Meta-normals
> > were of course practically perfect in every way...

>       So "ortho" means "close", "meta" >means "medium"
and "para" means "as far away as >possible"?  Note
that Chemists
> can not be perfectly normal, as two groups have to
> attach to different carbons in the ring...

Close enough, and Yep.  :)
Although "Paras" are still *on* the 'ring of
normality,' whereas Epis and Abis are completely *off*
(in several senses, potentially :} ). 

> I like "abi", which is probably not actually Greek.

Latin, I think - merely a play on 'abnormality.'  :)

Debbi
who did other silly things in college like *singing*
one of the Milton pieces we had to study (an Elegy? 
something about a 'lost lamb,' anyway) -- no alcohol
involved, just tremendous sleep deprivation!

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