Is it,
These things were sent to try us?
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bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Mon 7 Oct 2002, 10:31,
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yes.
I looked at the filename.
It's very good.
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Dr Phil Kitten,
Mon 7 Oct 2002, 10:33,
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it's "The THING!!" that famous Marvel character,
acting like a row-of-tents drag queen, and thus becoming "Miss Thing".
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Dr Phil Kitten,
Mon 7 Oct 2002, 10:38,
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yeah
but what does miss thing mean?
/fik
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munkt0n,
Mon 7 Oct 2002, 10:40,
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'Miss Thing'
is actually, like, a kind of black woman stereotype, someone who's all bitchy and into herself
jeez, where you been?
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isthisyou?,
Mon 7 Oct 2002, 10:43,
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I knew that,
I just assumed Munkt0n would too.
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Dr Phil Kitten,
Mon 7 Oct 2002, 11:01,
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Do I hear
the sound of a distant banjo?
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bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Mon 7 Oct 2002, 11:15,
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very common term from Hubert Selby Jr's "Last Exit To Brooklyn"
ever so slightly disturbing.
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Dr Nick Riviera,
Mon 7 Oct 2002, 11:21,
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"Miss Thing, Miss Thing, Miss Thing,
She had to pawn her diamond ring,
She went on down to Burger King
And found they weren't hiring"
(c) Uncanny Alliance, "I Got My Education", A&M records, 1992
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isthisyou?,
Mon 7 Oct 2002, 10:46,
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