MSGID: 1:153/716.0 f20f3901   
   REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5f0cbb10   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi, Anton!  Recently you wrote in a message to Dallas Hinton:   
      
   AS>  d.  I divulged to Jim everything I knew about...   
      
      
              I like this alternative because... while I have no control over   
   what Jim does with any information I've divulged/revealed to him... I still   
   have the original copy in my brain, and I can refer to it again whenever I see   
   fit.  :-)   
      
      
      
   AS>  (now that's more like dumping!)   
      
      
              Hmm.  I see that, in an emergency, an aeroplane might discharge   
   fuel into the air... but where I come from "dumping" usually means somebody   
   wants to get rid of household garbage & where it lands is irrelevant from   
   their POV.  We have signs saying "NO DUMPING" adjacent to certain ravines   
   around here....  :-Q   
      
      
      
   AS>  "drain" seems to imply a certain effort on the part   
   AS>  of the receiver   
      
      
              Perhaps.  I've heard many sad stories about how Jane Bloggs falls   
   in love with a con artist who drains her bank account(s) or persuades her to   
   do it because he desperately needs a loan... just over the weekend, you   
   understand... while he's waiting for a cheque to arrive in the mail.  Next   
   thing we know he's disappeared along with her life savings... [wry grin].   
      
      
      
   AS>  (e.g. a vampyre),   
      
      
              While I'd spell it "vampire", I enjoy archaic language too.  :-)   
      
      
      
   AS>  unless it verb is used in the narrow technical sense   
   AS>  of the operation of a drainage system.   
      
      
              I see it as a metaphor which may be interpreted in various ways,   
   but I have difficulty with the idea that... except perhaps in science   
   fiction... it is possible to suck out of my brain what I know about xxx,   
   leaving none for me. OTOH I'm quite comfortable with e.g. "I realized [the   
   neighbourhood gossip] was trying to pump me for information" & "Anton, I'd   
   like to pick your brains WRT a point of grammar".  Both imply some effort on   
   the part of the receiver....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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