<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Apparently, Alex got to fill in for his late cousin Auberon Waugh.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jim F.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:13:52 -0400 "Dennis" <<A href="mailto:dperrin13@mediaone.net">dperrin13@mediaone.net</A>> writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px"> <DIV><FONT size=2> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial size=3>This from Cockburn's NYPress column:</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial size=3>"A friend saw three Chinamen tumble out of a nightclub at 353 Broadway, each with bandages around one ear. One white man was similarly styled. She asked what was up. "We are celebrating Vincent van Gogh’s birthday," they chorused. True, it was March 30. All three Chinamen were artists, one of them recently graduating to that state from a previous career in investment banking. It turns out the party commemorating Vincent’s birthday was put on by those wonderful Russian artists, Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid."</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial size=3>Ah, hell Alex, why not go the full nine and say three Chinks? If you're gonna do it, do it right.</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial size=3>Then, at the end of the item, Cockburn, perhaps unconsciously feeling the PC pressure build within, writes:</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial size=3>"The birthday party for Vincent was a big success, with a band playing a blend of Polish and Irish music, plus mushroom soup with slabs of good bread and absinthe dispensed in huge cups."</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial size=3>What? Not Polack and Mick music? Man, I hate these mixed racial descriptions. </FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial size=3>DP</FONT></P></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>