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Thread #6887   Message #41181
Posted By: gargoyle
11-Oct-98 - 12:19 AM
Thread Name: What is a Plectrum Banjo?
Subject: RE: What is a Plectrum Banjo?

Dear BS

Perhaps, it because we are so alike, and yet so very distant that raises the hackles on my neck.
(Half right, almost full, 3/4 there, off topic)

From the following excerpt you will note that there are many names for "Mr. Smith," "Mike Smith" they range from "Man from Mars" to "bastard"

Stranger In a Strange Land

By Robert A. Heinlain

"We have just learned that the fake messiah, sometimes know as the Man from Mars, has crawled out of his hide-out in a hotel room here in beautiful S. Petersburg the City tha Has Everything to Make you Sing. Appartently Smith is about to surrender to the authorities...."

"Look at me. I am a son of man."

"God damn you!" A half brick caught Mike in the ribs.....

"Oh my brother, I love you so! Drink deep. Share and grow closer without end. Thou art God."

"Lynch him! Give the bastard a nigger necktie!"

PLECTRUM BANJO

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I grok you friend, but I hope no one ever uses your material for an "educational research paper."