I must admit my first reaction of Ms Lisa Chester’s missive was “that sounds like a posting by a porn star!”. This must be because of how it read in my haste: “Lisalips”. So I would suggest that Ms Chester(is there also a pun here or is it her real name?) consider renaming her “edgy” column with something that refers to the content of what she wants to write/talk about.

The content of her excerpts on dating however made me remember this ambitious site: www.solvedating.com . Perhaps Ms Chester can float an Atlanta Dating Market, something similar to the botched Pentagon’s futures market on their buddies, oops baddies and get rich with an IPO.

Her wisdom re clothing (or the lack of) is more measured. Also what would be of more interest to me would be to read her “writing’ vs say her “journalism”. But nevertheless each to her or his own cannons or keeping with the season, turkeys I say!

Sashi

I'm so busy and in such a bad mood these days that I practically stopped reading messages at CATL. I still read e-mails, though.

Your reaction to the "lisalips" posting is very appropriate. Just as I read your e-mail, I checked out her message and found that almost every phrase of it makes me laugh. I think, what she has succeeded in with her message was to partly dissipate my bad mood :-)

Did you know that "lisalips" is a writer, publicist, and trendsetter (what's the latter, by the way?), being trend-forecasting (what's that??) and setting to focus on relationships, fashion, and what's hot?

She has many interests and occupations for a promising career. Check out the link at the bottom of www.fromlisaslips.exposurinc.com.
I think, in some twenty years she'll prove an excellent columnist or even editor to one of those popular glitzy magazines that you can find in Kroger in a checkout line.

Hmmm ... I just found out that she had withdrawn her posting (# 3657) from the CATL list. Do you know why? :-)

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:) oh boy I am glad that my 2 bits helped clear some air and offered you some amusement. I also noticed that along with her posting, my posting was "un-posted" as well. I am deciding if I should take umbrage at such ghastly censorship!

Usually I ignore such "riff raff" that seem to float on the board under the guise/license of "writing", including all types of vomiting/sneezing/farting etc.

What is simply unreadable I ignore. Ms Lips's posting however smacked too much of self promotion and I just had to write my 2 bits even though I had read it at an ungodly hour last night.

As for 'trendsetter', 'edgy', 'trend-forecasting' etc, they are just another set of meaningless adjectives. It might be instructive to create a literary hoax in this context panning Ms. Lips. Maybe that will be my next project. :-)

Also I should point out to Alan Sokal's hoax here: www.physics.nyu.edu

you will enjoy it!

Hope Sir Booby fares well and you will be able to wrap up his saga in a few days!

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-- You know, Sashi, when I came to US I could not understand what all these Greek fraternities were about. It first I thought that its members studied works of Greek philosophers or dramatists, or at least learned Greek language. But I could not understand why Greek?

Soon I learned that the members of the fraternities are ordinary undergraduate American "guys" who typically do nothing but watch/play sports, eat chips, drink beer, flirt, party etc etc, in short, they have nothing to do with Aristotle!

But why calling them Greek fraternities then? Partly I was explained and partly I understood myself: in America if you call something by a new fashionable name, at least by a name, you can sweep a lot of things "under this name", talk vaguely about it and earn money (basically promising that something is going to work but what it really is and what it really does is unclear).

Such things happen everywhere in science, for example. People studied atoms and molecules for decades, but now it is "trendy" to call these objects "nano-objects". Angstroms are more and more called 0.1 nm :-)

This small re-naming opens up extensive possibilities of obtaining new grants and publishing articles in such journals as "Nature". The same thing is happening with the prefix "bio".

"Alpha Kappa Sigma", "Gamma Theta Omega". "nanocluster", "nanotechnology", "biopolymers", "biomachines" ...

Maybe the analogy is indirect but I think one can also add to this list the new concepts of "edgy", "trend-forecasting", "trend-setting" etc.

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