Sinister: even when I'm lying

[EliotNew at xxx.com]

     IanH's no doubt searing expose' ala roman a' clef is lost on me.  Living 
where I do I have not yet met any of the people on this list so I don't know 
if, say, FluffySarah is actually FluffyFred.  Fortunately, I don't care.  I 
don't care if someone fakes a closet of cardigans to try to increase the 
traffic in their love life and certainly wouldn't feel propelled to 'steal 
Momus's idea' (apparently of constructing awkward rhyme schemes) to berate a 
few who might.  Those warbly verses obviously weren't composed in hopes of 
bettering the structure of the list as the author bid us adieu on his way 
out.  That sort of fuck-off-as-I-farewell inevitably leaves a rather dubious 
impression of the exiter.  Same thing happened the other night where I work.  
A guy mumbled something rude about the workers over his shoulder as he walked 
out and I said (based on a line from Millers Crossing, with all the bravado 
of the original) ''It's funny how lippy people get when they're walking out 
the door'.  It actually turned into a mildly exciting face-to-face, but I 
digress.
     With a group of this size I am consistently impressed with the 
readability of a lot of the mail I get from here.  It buries any other rock 
and roll(!) list I've been on in terms of wit and coherence and I don't think 
that is courtesy Honey's editing.  So there's a few daisies who type in 
lowercase and sound as though they would hyperventilate if their phone ever 
rang; don't you know any people like that in your real life?  I do.  You help 
them over the fence.  You don't make fun of them from the top and let the 
cops get them. (Another story, another digress.)  
    This list has become a fun few mintues of my day.  I think it has a good 
rhythm and is developing a cool argot.  In the service of that, I don't care 
if a few people lie.  Most of my favorites encourage it:

Q. On what occasions do you lie?
Moz: When completely unnecessary.

"If that's not the way it happened, it's the way it should have happened." 
-Capote, after lying.

"I tell the truth, even when I'm lying."  Johnny Thunders, Al Pacino in 
Scarface, etc...

Eliot New  
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