From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 01:25:14 -0500
Subject: smack in the gob
smack in the gob - similar to the Scots 'dint in the bru'. I believe it is an English way of saying "Fist in the Face". Jon no doubt learned this cunning customer relations move from a nearby English football club or at least from the fans of same. (Note to those in the USA and Canada: I don't mean football with an oddly shaped ovoid ball here - I'm talking about what we Colonials call soccer). Someone asked what an email smack in the gob might be like. I have one suggestion: If you get any email from Jon with any sort of an attachment, don't open it. I'm pretty sure it won't be your advanced preview of the FB2. I don't think you'll like the kind of "electronic gob-smacking" you might get.... After all, they breed nasty computer virii in 2185. More than a match for your primitive McCafee or Norton AntiVirus. And if St.Jon decides to respond more aggressively, I'm sure War Leader W'kan will loan him his Bats-R-Us squad of Narns (with a "whack whack here, and a smack smack there..."). Do not anger the Needham Mangler himself.... <rofl....then running to hide from the aforementioned gob-smacking myself> :) Keep smiling. It makes the world wonder what you are up to.