Re: [Mid] In defense of the bellydancer

On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, B. Garwood wrote:

> Oh what have they done to our language? Exotic is something out of
> the ordinary and from a far away land. Belly dancing is from the
> Middle Esst, and uncommon here, hence it is exotic. Why do the
> strip joints continue to call their performers exotic, when they are
> in fact erotic?

       Hmmm....now I've heard from Purple that this ISN'T what an exotic
       dancer does. Perhaps this phrase is used differently, in different
       locations ?

> A three-toed sloth would be an exotic pet. Kimchee is an exotic
> food. I see nothing particularly sexy about them, except maybe to
> another sloth or a decompsed cabbage.

       Grrrrrrrr......is cheese "decomposed milk". Is beer "decomposed
       barley", or wine "decomposed grapes" ?

       Better still, is mead "decomposed bee vomit" ?

       Try "ripened", "brewed", and "fermented". All, much more
       controlled processes than simply letting any bacillis or fungus
       that shows up, grow out of control. The salting that occurs
       in the case of Kimchi making insures that this will not be the
       case. The resulting product is quite edible, and remains so for
       months - more or less the point, to food preservation.

       Please keep your terms straight.

       Hrrrmmmpphhh ! No sweetened rotting ungulate lactary sections,
       spread on crumbled denatured foaming spoiled fertilized
       grass ova (*) for this man !

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   (*) ie. cheesecake.

From: Joseph Dunphy <stats@xnet.com>
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Received on Mon Jan 12 11:59:44 1998