[UA] Adelaide, Aussies and other Assonance (RE: [UA] Ritual killing in London)
James Knevitt
psipsina at iprimus.com.au
Thu Jul 31 17:40:41 PDT 2003
> -----Original Message-----
> Anyway, I believe it was Steve Jackson who put it this way once, in the
> Daily Illuminator: If the Freemasons really were a secret society,
> you'd hardly be able to look up their meeting halls in the phone book.
As they've publicly stated for their local recruiting drive, they're not a secret
society, they're a society with secrets. :)
James
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about
as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has
pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets
for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll
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