Somewhere there's a large crowd of very confused electrons.
At 08:42 PM 5/29/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > Mark Weiss
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 7:43 PM
> >
> >Yup. So, by the way, is "bachee." I just spoke to my Trinidadi poet friend
> >Mervyn Taylor, who says it means what we call a batchelor pad--where one
> >takes a woman.
>
>"Batching it" has always meant, for me anyway, a male or males being single,
>without a mate or their significant other is absent. Married men can
>"batch it"
>for an evening. If a wife leaves on holiday then the husband is "batching it"
>until she returns. It's as if being a bachelor describes a transitory state as
>well as a social status.
>
> >I don't know if this will get thru--for some reason I've had most of my
> >poetryetc, and only my poetryetc, posts bounce back since Erminia left. Did
> >she cast a spell? other explanation?
>
>I dunno, Mark. The mystery I shrug off anymore is never seeing the original
>message that spawns all of the RE: messages. Sometimes I catch the original
>embedded in a reply. However, nine times out of ten the whole thread has
>metamorphosed into a critter best left to its natural demise:)
>
>- Frank (who got your message via poetryetc just fine)
>
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>Frank Parker
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