"> I refused outright. I was a stripper for the TM move- > ment and damn! if I was going to let somebody make > me say that I did "montage" for a living."
Excellent! BTW next time that brunette "montage" artist comes by our table, tell her I'll meet her in the Champagne room with a roll of 20's. --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > "This group which used to be fun when it was like Rick's Bar > > > and Grill is pretty boring catering to a bunch of bliss ninnies > > > and quickly becoming Rick's Victorian Tea House." > > > > I guess that explains why the last beer I ordered tasted like > > Lapsang Suchon and my Reuben sandwich order came back as cucumber > > finger triangles without the crusts. And when did we ban strippers? > > That used to be my favorite part of my lunch break here. Even the > > enlightened need a lap dance once in a while, right?! > > Hey, I used to be a stripper *for* the TM movement. > > Seriously. > > And I used to *love* saying it that way. It used to > make the Purusha-types-before-there-was-a-Purusha > *so* uptight. :-) > > I was a photostripper for MIU Press. Back in the > days before digital presses, you had to shoot negs > of the typeset copy and then paste them up in cer- > tain configurations and then shoot printing plates > from them. In America, this process is called > "stripping." > > One of the first indications I got that the TM move- > ment was not for me is when people started getting > offended by the term "stripping." Mandates came down > from Seelisberg that we should refer to what we do > by the European term "montage." > > I refused outright. I was a stripper for the TM move- > ment and damn! if I was going to let somebody make > me say that I did "montage" for a living. > > We *did* do the stripping fully clothed, however, > for those who are still offended by the term. :-) >
