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first, best, biggest!

the first is an emoticon meaning "winking with tongue stuck out" usually used to imply that one's joking.

the second is an asterisk, used to denote that one should look elsewhere* for more information regarding what came just before the * where there is another * later in the text or at the bottom of a page.


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*this is elsewhere, for instance

Good morning professor. Up early aren't you?

The "*" was also what you saw in lieu of my erased responses to GTO.

Thank you Trish for saving me the embarassment(s).

bloody spaniard

i posted that before i went to sleep. i apparently only needed only a few hours to rest my eyes and body.

i am finishing a cigar i left in the ash tray with a cup of warm coffee, and i am off to sleep.

later today i have to wrap some christmas present i found at walmart. we went there yesterday or the day before to pick up some blank dvd's.

tues evening i am have a dvd burner installed by my hacker guru. he said i could dupe a dvd in less than a half hour. now toby can rent a bunch at once and i can return them to hollywood the next day and get a buck back on each one for early return. us seniors have to watch our money.

i was wondering why you were up so early until i realized it's 3 hours later where you live. isn't that odd that we are awake simultaineously but you are actually three hours older then me at any given clock time. i don't mean age, but you are always going to be three hours ahead of me.

have you read "nightfall" by issac asimov, or "forever by pete hamill? i sent an email to hamill about his book and the response i got touched me.

here is a copy of both emails.

From: RICKAMAVEN
Date: Sunday, June 08, 2003 6:41:09 AM
To: [email protected]

pete

i'm 70 so i can get by on first name basis.

i am reading "forever" as slow as i can because i want to savor each page.

on page 500 something you did stopped me cold. "spaldeen" i never thought about the memories one word could evoke. "over da fence is a double, on da roof is a automatic."

thanks for wiping off about 60 years of dust and letting me see the treasure again.

rick

From: hamill
Date: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:22:29 AM
To: RICKAMAVEN
Subject: Re:

Rick: And off da parked cah is a hindoo. Thanks for your note and for reading so carefully. All da best, Pete Hamill

blood is good people, rick. *nodnod*
rick is good people, blood. *nodnod*

rick, the wife just showed me a package that arrived apparently before the weekend. DOH! thank you, sir! what a great bunch o' music! sara's a major major fan of lehrer, too. wooot! i'm building up a little collection of Stuff To Send Rick. probably get that as well as Stuff To Send Blood out in the mail at month's end (except, ya know, cigars; they stay in the humi until mail-out day).

and mistah blood. *cough* well, i agreed not to praise the bajeepers out of you in public, so let me just say you're one mean, cruel, um, slimy, uh, heartless... creep! yes, a CREEP! for um, sending the nifty gifties you've sent, suh! *slaps your face with a glove* so THERE! ;)

Oh right, I forgot...

blood