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From: mike@sdcrdcf.UUCP
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Subject: Re: valspeak info wanted ("totally tubular")
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Date: Mon, 11-Jul-83 11:58:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 11 11:58:27 1983
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Reply-To: mike@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Michael Williams)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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	As I have just moved from Encino, Ca. (two blocks
	from the the Galleria), I can say with some 
	authority that the abovementioned phrase had
	exactly the right affect on you (ie left you
	confused).  Actually, tubular is one of the
	influxes of surf-speak on val, and comes from
	the root "tube", the phenomenon of water rushing
	in a cylindrical shape, and the adjunct "tubed",
	which is being surrounded by such an oceanic
	occurence.  This is the penultimate experience
	for a surfer, and is therefore a strongly positive
	adjective.  Surfers find some relation between the
	euphoric rush of being "tubed", and the rush of
	smoking good grass, so the term "tubed" can also
	be used to refer (pun ?) to one in a more "fubar"
	like condition (which seems to be the second most
	desirable experience).

	"it's fingers danced to a private rhumba all their own..."

	Mike Williams
	System Development Corp.
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