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Posted by G lib on 2005-04-21 17:12:29 +0000

I was looking for a job and then I found a job...

Boston people:
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Meet me at the Cambridge Brewing Company on Friday at 6:00 for a little early birthday party/ last day of work hot action that should involve beer towers and maybe some food. If it's nice out, we'll sit on the patio.
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Let me know if you're going to come, so I can get reservations.
Posted by G lib on 2005-04-21 17:14:37 +0000
[And, yes that subject line is a Smiths fagan.]

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Posted by rladew on 2005-04-21 21:22:50 +0000
and heaven knows I'm Total Kenobi'd now.....

BTW is it still considered a Fagen if you point it out yrself?

Is that a meta-Fagen?
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Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-04-22 12:16:43 +0000
I wish I could be there! En lieu of that, here's a Jane Austen fagan to hopefully make you smile. And I don't give a damn that I'm pointing it out myself. Nor do I give two hoots that I have no idea what a fagan is.
Posted by tgl on 2005-04-22 13:40:26 +0000
That might be a meta-fagan. Not sure what that is, though.

http://www.fageninc.com/
Posted by frame609 on 2005-04-22 16:40:09 +0000
I'm thinkin' that the metafagan is one that points itself out (again, whatever that means.) A fagan, of course, is any cultural reference that stops conversation because it alienates people- so, mentioning Darth Vader, for example, on Jon Bon Jovi, is not dropping any kind of Fagan at all because everyone knows both.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-04-22 18:05:04 +0000
Maybe if you dropped Darth Vader on Jon Bon Jovi, JBJ's cleft chin might smooth out as a result of the impact... Why "fagan"?
Posted by frame609 on 2005-04-22 18:09:35 +0000
We were sitting on the back porch one night and Ned started talking about the Donald Fagan solo album (he of Steely Dan.) I mentioned that Ned had just 'dropped the Fagan' and it stuck.
Posted by tgl on 2005-04-22 18:11:51 +0000
<font size=7>E!</font>

<a href="http://rideside.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Fagen">FAGEN</a>

Is it a fagen to point out the proper spelling of fagen?

Or is it just me being a prick?
Posted by frame609 on 2005-04-22 18:14:12 +0000
(accidental double post)
Posted by frame609 on 2005-04-22 18:15:43 +0000
You're totally right- FagEn, not FagAn. Maybe the latter is the British spelling. Anyway, I will standardize circa: pronto.

(I think the spelling Fagen might be a Branca.)
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-04-22 18:16:15 +0000
Most educational. I thank you, Tiberius.

And Tez, mate - pointing out spelling errors is both necessary and painstaking work, and I salute you.
Posted by tgl on 2005-04-22 18:21:15 +0000
Please... it's "Taz".
Posted by tgl on 2005-04-22 19:04:50 +0000
...and two hours left on the clock.
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