Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot From: chabot@miles.DEC (Bits is bits) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Perchild and other Stupidity Message-ID: <2197@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-May-85 08:45:27 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2197 Posted: Wed May 15 08:45:27 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 17-May-85 04:38:36 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 13 What is this, a lack of humor among some of the male participants here? I thought the Beckerperchild etc derivation entertaining. As the article said: "We once had a great time evolving a friend's name." "Great time" to me also means the evolvers thought it amusing. If playing with words is "behaving ... stupidly", well, I guess a lot of writers should consider themselves idiots. :-) If I can't take myself not-so-seriously sometimes, what business do I have taking anything else lightly? L S Chabot ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa