Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wlcrjs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!wlcrjs!zubbie From: zubbie@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) Newsgroups: net.women,net.flame Subject: Re: MS/Miss/Mrs. Message-ID: <590@wlcrjs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 14:43:25 EST Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.590 Posted: Tue Feb 19 14:43:25 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Feb-85 06:51:09 EST References: <1680@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1962@sun.uucp> <539@wlcrjs.UUCP> <265@celerity.UUCP> Reply-To: zubbie@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.women:4504 net.flame:8449 Summary: In article <265@celerity.UUCP> ron@celerity.UUCP ( McDaniels) writes: >In article <539@wlcrjs.UUCP> zubbie@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) writes: >> MY LOGNAME/NICKNAME/* is zubbie. > . . . >>. . . I worked there a while also and was then known >>as little zubbie, is perhaps as non-gender specific as I care to get. >>I also answer the phone on my desk as "ZUBBIE". People are then free >>to either get on with business, now having a handle by which to communicate >>with me or they can . . . > >They can get on with business unless they are laughing too hard. > >Why? Are there any Arabs out there that would like to tell Ms. Zobjeck what a >zubbie is? > >Thanks for such a cleverly worded article! "little zubbie", "non-gender", "having a handle". You should have cross posted to net.jokes. > >McD > >{decvax || ucbvax || ihnp4 || akgua || philabs}!sdcsvax!celerity!ron