Re: VB or VC++?

Correction from spinoza1111: I was wrong about Frances being the girl's
name and Francis the boy's: it is the other way around.

spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> rainbve wrote:
> > <spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1133241299.691696.309180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > 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?
>
> 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".
>
> >
> > She certainly sounds about 12 - hey. maybe she's having her first period
> > [not school]?

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