Editing Mark V. Shaney (section)

==Examples==
A classic example, from 1984, originally sent as a mail message, later posted to net.singles<ref name="Party Politics"/> is reproduced here:

{{Cquote|>From mvs Fri Nov 16 17:11 EST 1984 remote from alice

It looks like [[Reagan]] is going to say? Ummm... Oh yes, I was looking for. I'm so glad I remembered it. Yeah, what I have wondered if I had committed a crime. Don't eat with your assessment of Reagon and [[Mondale]]. Up your nose with a guy from a firm that specifically researches the teen-age market. As a friend of mine would say, "It really doesn't matter"... It looks like Reagan is holding back the arms of the American eating public have changed dramatically, and it got pretty boring after about 300 games.

People, having a much larger number of varieties, and are very different from what one can find in [[Chinatown]]s across the country (things like [[pork bun]]s, steamed dumplings, etc.) They can be cheap, being sold for around 30 to 75 cents apiece (depending on size), are generally not greasy, can be adequately explained by stupidity. Singles have felt insecure since we came down from the Conservative world at large. But [[Chuqui]] is the way it happened and the prices are VERY reasonable.

Can anyone think of myself as a [[third sex]]. Yes, I am expected to have. People often get used to me knowing these things and then a cover is placed over all of them. Along the side of the $$ are spent by (or at least for ) the girls. You can't settle the issue. It seems I've forgotten what it is, but I don't. I know about violence against women, and I really doubt they will ever join together into a large number of jokes. It showed [[Adam]], just after being created. He has a [[modem]] and an [[autodial]] routine. He calls my number 1440 times a day. So I will conclude by saying that I can well understand that she might soon have the time, it makes sense, again, to get the gist of my argument, I was in that (though it's a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Administration of the United States|administration]]).

_-_-_-_-Mark}}

Other quotations from Mark's Usenet posts are:<ref name="Jillette"/>

*"I spent an interesting evening recently [[:Wiktionary:with a grain of salt|with a grain of salt]]." (Alternatively reported as "While at a conference a few weeks back, I spent an interesting evening with a grain of salt."<ref name="SoftPanorama"/><ref name="Change of"/>)
*"I hope that there are [[:Wiktionary:for sour apples|sour apples]] [[:Wiktionary:there's a rotten apple in every barrel|in every bushel]]."<ref name="Sour"/><ref name="bushel">{{cite news |last1=Nunberg |first1=Jeff |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/05/09/136017612/bad-apple-proverbs-theres-one-in-every-bunch |access-date=30 November 2024}}</ref> (see also [[:wiktionary:sour grapes|sour grapes]])