Re: Britney Spears nude - worm alert

"Golightly F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> French postcards?
> 
> 
> > Nerd: One of a tribe that discusses computer
> > security in a thread about "Britney Spears Nude"
> > in rec.bicycles.tech.
> >
> > Off to look for French postcards!
> >
> > My real name forwards,
> >
> > Carl Fogel

Dear Golightly,

Despite your nom-de-web, you must expand your 
literary world beyond "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

Before the wonders of the internet crushed
traditional pornography beneath an avalanche
of flesh, one of the burdens that the French
had to bear was a well-deserved reputation 
for risque postcards and salacious literature.

This French reputation is what P.G. Wodehouse 
daringly refers to in "Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets," 
Chapter 3:

    "Avenues, too. I explored them all."
     Bingo pursed his lips.
     "I have no wish to condemn you unheard,
  Purkiss," he said, "but this all begins to
  look a bit French. Did you kiss Miss Jobson?"
     
(Purkiss didn't, but he did give Miss Jobson 
his wife's Pekinese.)

A French postcard is not to be confused with a 
French letter. No further explanations will be
provided.

Nerd: One of a tribe that rakes up literary allusions 
when explicating pornography in rec.bicycles.tech.

Off to ogle ankles in the 1912 Sears catalogue!

James Joyce