Re: VB or VC++?

spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx wrote in
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> rainbve wrote:
>> <spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > Duane Arnold wrote:
>> >> And I'll forewarn you. I have the mindset of the EOR specialist.
>> >> That's Equal Opportunity Ragger to you. And that means I'll dog
>> >> you out, your house, dog, cat, car, home, family and anything else
>> >> and have a little fun
>> >> with the Rag Game. And you can best believe I have done just that.
>> >> So you come on ahead and will have a little fun.
>> >>
>> >> <G>
>> >
>> > ooooooo
>> >
>> > Lighten up, Frances.
>>
>>
>> Frances is a girl's name isn't it. So, is Duane really a girl [not
>> woman] with penis envy perhaps?
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> Nope. In the 1950s and in Irish neighborhoods, guys were still named
> Frances as the long or formal form of Frank and Frank was considered
> as a dimunitive form of Frances, which was spelled with an e to
> disambiguate it from the girl's name Francis.
>
> Needless to say, guys who were addressed by the nuns as Frances in
> Irish Catholic schools got a lot of ***, and the scene in the 1981
> film stripes, in which the new recruits introduce themselves is based
> on this.
>
> My post was based on what Harold Ramis, one of the stars in Stripes,
> does after Psycho gives his little spiel. Ramis shakes his hand as if
> to say "look, I'm so scared" and says ooooo and Frances/Psycho glares
> at Ramis' character, and says, "you're on my list". Whereupon the old
> Sarge says, "lighten up, Frances".
>

And then there was the MAN in the NFL at QB the Scrambler Fran Trakenton
his name was Frances. <g>

Duane :)


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