From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 21:09:38 MDT
At 01:21 PM 5/22/02 +0200, KPJ wrote:
>|I started to write "petty bourgeois," but was afraid someone on this list
>|was going to accuse me of having collectivist leanings. (I'm joking! I'm
>|joking! No one on this list would do such a thing! ...)
>Of course not. Petty BORGeois, on the other hand...
This is a wonderful quip! I can see it now: the Borg and the Ferengi
running a joint cupcake-stand on Deep Space Nineteen, seizing customers and
shaking `contributions' from hapless bypassers (`Resistance to our sales
pitch is futile!') before going home and pulling on their comfy slippers
and settling in to a nice evening's viewing of `Anya: the Vampire Seller'.
Damien Broderick
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