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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Atticus, sometimes you are too oblique for me. Should you perhaps qualify your intro. by saying "any male graduate of an American middle school" ? What are you talking about in your second and third paragraphs?
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Jeez, did you people
all grow up in Canada?
Act I, Scene i. A School-yard.
Bully. Are you a fag in a cage?
Dupe. No.*
Bully. {
Pointing & Calling to Friends, &c.} Fag on the loose! Fag on the loose!
Act I, Scene ii. Same.
Bully. Did you know that if your face is the same size as your hand with your fingers spread out, you have cancer?
Dupe. No. I do not want the cancer! I should find out by placing my spread hand in front of my face, with my palm touching the tip of my nose. {
He does.}
Bully. {
Pushes Dupe's hand into face.} You're cancer free, but why are you hitting yourself?
Dupe. O, the humanity!
{Curtain.}
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As for the fingernail thing, which is the NTTAWWT way to look at them -- hand spread out flat with the fingers pointing up, or hand closed, in sort of a claw position, with the fingers pointing down?
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For boys, the proper heterosexual way to examine your fingernails is to place the palm facing upwards and to curl your fingers inward. Holding the hand flat, palm down will cause grief and misery for you and your parents. For girls, the standard is, of course, reversed.
*Only one person in my schoolyard ever thought he could outwit this system by answering "yes" and mooting the punchline. He was never heard from again.
