Re: oops
I think the joke that I've seen in movies and elsewhere was the use of Mike Hunt, but didn't know about Sea Hunt. Can't remember the movie but somebody played a prank on someone else, with a page over a loud speaker "Call for Mike Hunt". Was that Pretty-In-Pink? Or maybe a Ford Fairlane movie. Also great to see this Informix newsgroup being utilized to its best use. ;o) Andrew Hamm wrote: > June C. Hunt wrote: > >>My indignation goes no further than my name. Plain and simple, there >>is no special meaning in it. June Christine Hunt. >> >>However, in your original post you wrote and Mark Townsend responded: >> > Nice one June "C Hunt". You almost had us all believing you are >>serious. > >> >>Umm - that actually _is_ her name. And, FWIW, I think she is deadly >>serious. > > > I'm talking about you being serious in your indignation. I assumed until > now that your name is a typical clever anonymous internet handle. Clearly > it is. > > Perhaps you are wondering why I think it's clever? "Sea Hunt" is a kind of > comic feau-conservative way of saying the C-word, the same way that some > people say Heck instead of Hell, some people (eg the Irish) say shite > instead of shit, some people say George Dubya instead of G.W. Bush, and so > on. > > If you are previously unaware of the "Sea Hunt" gimmick, now you know why > I might have assumed it was merely an anonymous internet nickname. Now we > are both better informed. > > Let's get back to the subject of censorship... > >
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:04:24 -0500, Data Goob <datagoob@netscape.net> wrote: >I think the joke that I've seen in movies and elsewhere was the use >of Mike Hunt, but didn't know about Sea Hunt. Can't remember the >movie but somebody played a prank on someone else, with a page over >a loud speaker "Call for Mike Hunt". Was that Pretty-In-Pink? Or >maybe a Ford Fairlane movie. Porky's, IIRC > >Also great to see this Informix newsgroup being utilized to its >best use. ;o) > > >Andrew Hamm wrote: >> June C. Hunt wrote: >> >>>My indignation goes no further than my name. Plain and simple, there >>>is no special meaning in it. June Christine Hunt. >>> >>>However, in your original post you wrote and Mark Townsend responded: >>> > Nice one June "C Hunt". You almost had us all believing you are >>>serious. > >>> >>Umm - that actually _is_ her name. And, FWIW, I think she is deadly >>>serious. >> >> >> I'm talking about you being serious in your indignation. I assumed until >> now that your name is a typical clever anonymous internet handle. Clearly >> it is. >> >> Perhaps you are wondering why I think it's clever? "Sea Hunt" is a kind of >> comic feau-conservative way of saying the C-word, the same way that some >> people say Heck instead of Hell, some people (eg the Irish) say shite >> instead of shit, some people say George Dubya instead of G.W. Bush, and so >> on. >> >> If you are previously unaware of the "Sea Hunt" gimmick, now you know why >> I might have assumed it was merely an anonymous internet nickname. Now we >> are both better informed. >> >> Let's get back to the subject of censorship... >> >>
Data Goob wrote: > with a page over > a loud speaker "Call for Mike Hunt". Was that Pretty-In-Pink? Or > maybe a Ford Fairlane movie. "A" Ford Fairlane movie? There was more than one? > Also great to see this Informix newsgroup being utilized to its > best use. ;o) Entertaining the masses? That's the First Amendment of the ng charter.