RARA-AVIS: question

ejm duggan (ejmd@mcmail.com)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:34:29 -0700 On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, michael david sharp <msharp@umich.edu> wrote

> OK, I was wondering if someone can explain the meaning of a comic I have
> sitting in front of me.
[SNIP]
> Now, does this mean she'd rather be reading a mystery than sleeping
> w/ this guy, or that she'd rather have a more masculine "tough guy," or
> does it mean it would take a detective to find his penis, or what?
> Something else? Thanks for your help, Michael

Michael, you know as well as the next guy that there's no simple answer
to this! There's really no way to begin to answer a question about a
decontextualised fragment (OK, OK, all texts are decontextualised
fragments, but you know what I mean...)

It can mean one or more of these things, or none of them or all of
them. And whatever it means this time---if anything---the meaning may
differ next time.

BTW, if you can't say it like a word (eg scuba) then that acronym is
probably an abbreviation ;-)

ED

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