in the mails yesterday:

von: (subjectless group mail) my ascent to civilization is now complete.

minz: so you bought the bed did you? i mean, it can't be that you decided to learn latin.

von: i got a trash can. you have no idea what a difference this makes.

yen: out of morbid curiosity - what have you been doing with your trash all this while?

von: i had a fruit carton for a while, then fruitflies began to appear and i threw it out. after that, i used an old shoebox, but spilled a cup of tea into it so that had to go.

julian: you reprised the maggot-filled tupperware, didn't you? and i thought we had learned that lesson.

(to be continued)