Date:  Wed, 11 Jan 1995 09:07:33 EST

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: Brick reality and language in cyberspace



>Your mention of "brick reality" is the first I've heard. It seems

>parallel to another usage I am familiar with: skin meeting. There are now

>electronic "meetings" of various 12-step groups (Alcoholics Anonymous, et.c)

>on the net, and members of those groups sometimes refer to flesh-and-blood

>meetinsgs as "skin meetings."

>

>Bethany Dumas = dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]utkvx.utk.edu



I can see the memo now: "There will be a organizational skin meeting of

college athletic supporters on May 15 at 8:00 P. M. in the gymnasium."



Forgive me. My eyes are blind; my head is numb; I spent the night tending

to an infant trying to become a toddler. How do parents of teenagers cope?







Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

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