Date:         Tue, 8 Apr 1997 17:51:27 EDT
From: "Pop? No, soda! tink..." <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Filler: inappropriate?

On Mon, 07 Apr 1997 21:29:41 -0000, Jane Wanklin
<jwanklin@ZAP.WWDC.COM> ventured:
:)    Now had you used as the subject header: "Filler: What's an
:) effective poison with which i can do my old man in?", well *that*could
:) be just a weeeeee bit controversial ;)

that's right.  it should be

"Filler: What's an effective poison to do the old man in?"

[is there such a thing as an affective poison?  what would that be?]

or perhaps (PC and alliteration, all rolled into one)

"Filler: What's a perfect poison to potion to a person?"

[avoiding for the moment any reference to the potion with the poison
and the vessel with the pestle, since that allusion probably dates
one...:]

or even...

"Filler: What's a Person to do...when a poison for pop is needed?"

or maybe (simplify! simplify! sip and die!)

"Filler: Poison Pop?  What Potion Will Do?"

I mean, let's make those subject lines interesting!

(or, of course, we could mention that the query also fits under TECH:

after all, filler is what you put the poison in, while tech is about
which one to use, isn't it?)

:-)

tink

[I almost did a riff on controversial being a new form of poetry, but
decided someone probably beat me to it...proverbial and controversy,
those little wits of words...]