At 10:06 PM -0600 on 2/24/00, Aaron wrote:


> petty-bourgeois wanna-be

Um, that's "petit bourgeois", to you, sir. Of course, since you probably
heard it second-hand in a Texas graduate-student drawl, you're excused.

Socialism is *french*, remember?

;-).

Cheers,
RAH
[Who's had enough of things *french* for a while, especially heavy
low-bridgedeck *french* catamarans, with goofy *french* power plugs,
chartered from the *french* side of otherwise Carribbean islands with
*french* phone systems, which don't have information operators, not even
ones which speak *french*... The *french* skipper was nice, though. Except
that she spoke *french* all the damn time...]

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