-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Crisp [mailto: curious.crisp@gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 11/29/2007 8:24 PM
To: Young, Molly
Subject: tap dance


Dearest Mollusk,

I am up late studying in the library and just
purchased a rare cup of coffee (caffeine!) to
help me stay awake. I realized that my favorite
part of drinking coffee is putting the sugar
in, especially pinching the edge of the splenda
pouch and shaking it wildly. It made me think
about how so many habits that people have
involve a preparatory series of taps and
shakes. I've come up with a list:

1) splenda shaking for coffee.
2) forearm tapping for heroin.
3) beer can lid tapping (to reduce carbonation).
4) cigarette base palm bumping (why is this?)

Can you think of any more?

Love,
Pablo




From: Molly Young [mailto: molly_young@brown.edu]
Sent: Tue 11/29/2007 8:41 PM
To: Crisp, Pablo
Subject: Re: tap dance


HEE!!! To answer your question, cigarettes are
tapped in order to compact the tobacco, I
believe, so that they burn longer.

Also, a bartender preparing mixed drinks
has to shake the cocktail shaker.

Does tap dancing count? It doesn't precede
anything, so the tapping is more an end than
a means.

Those are the only ones I can think of.


-Mogwarts




-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Crisp [mailto: curious.crisp@gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 11/29/2007 9:05 PM
To: Young, Molly
Subject: Re: re: tap dance


Good one! I want to hold a pack of cigarettes
solely so I can do that! I also thought of
another: chopping up cocaine mounds on a mirror!
I can start a business at parties prepping
people's substances for them! What a primitively
satisfying and morally abhorrent job! I could
also specialize in licking joints, tapping crack
rocks out of vials, prodding at bowls of ash, and
flicking air bubbles out of syringes.


Love,
Pebbles




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