Return-Path: sendmail 5.67/UCSD-2.2-sun Sat, 3 Apr 93 21:27:30 -0800 for /usr/lib/sendmail -oc -odq -oQ/var/spool/mqueue -oi -fsocgrad-relay socgrad-list From: julianp@sfu.ca Subject: "Coleman-balls" To: socgrad@ucsd.edu Date: Sat, 3 Apr 93 21:27:20 PST In Britain, we have a sports commentator par excellence by the name of David Coleman who, apart from being incredibly sexy, is renowned for making the most incredibly silly mistakes while reporting live on air at sporting events. These cock-ups are affectionately known as "Coleman-balls" and are often the subject of conversation at parties frequented by groups of people comprising what Chomsky refers to as the "political class" (intellectuals, cultural managers, teachers and, probably, James Coleman), who are supposed to make up about 20% of the population. What all this means I don't know, and there is absolutely no hidden message in it for those who still think things have to have some kind of underlying meaning (shame on you, modernists). A recipe: "FREEDOM PIE": Some short-crust pastry One AK 47 Method: You know the rest. Incidentally, Clinton and Yeltsin came to town today and about 150 people (a sign of the times-personally I blame those damn postmodernists) came out to protest the "New World Order". I'd be interested in finding out how the media south of the 49th covered this event; was the protest given any coverage? By the way, does this have to be a forum for massaging the ego's of careerist politicians (Whoops! I meant sociologists)? Anthony Giddens's hairpiece. Vancouver, B.C.