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Re: Bubba is a 75 year old woman looking to make some extra cash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Apr 7 15:17:36 2011
In-Reply-To: <4D9E085D.3010608@mompl.net>
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:16:19 -0500
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-acces=
s
>=20
> Babushkas can be quite mean, though mostly it's shopping bags that are the=
ir preferred tools of assault. ;-)
>=20
As the recipient of a number of umbrella tips while trying to catch up to my=
fiancee (at the time, ex-wife now) in a meat shop in Moscow, I have to diff=
er with you here. They seem quite adept at the use of an umbrella rather tha=
n a shopping bag as an effective weapon.
Once we finally got out of the shop (I was a full 10 minutes delayed behind m=
y fiancee), we figured out that her effort to move efficiently through the c=
rowd (which virtually parted before her) combined with my effort to keep up (=
or catch up as rapidly became the case) had been interpreted by the babushka=
s as her trying to get away from my unwanted attentions. I must say, they we=
re impressively effective and well coordinated in impeding my progress while=
expediting hers considering it was a random crowd of seemingly unconnected p=
eople.
Owen
