"Tuvshintugs" is an honorific title meaning She-Who-Must-Be-Dismayed.

And, of course...

batchimeg tuvshintugs

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I hope it's all on the <up and up>, if you catch my drift.

I thank You for a prompt response. Although it is somewhat disappointing, I do appreciate Your sincerity. At least, I hope, You'll find and odd moment now and then to follow the game in progress.

<"I saw the best minds of my (and proximate) generations, Sending grovelling emails to Mr Gates hoping for a software fix...

<If You See Her Say J'adoube>

"If you see her, say j'adoube,
She might be on c4
She left c3 earlier,
So her Knight would have a chance to score...

I should jolly well hope not. Some male collectors have been known to erect a paper sculpture built entirely from back issues -- in the style of the excellent Scottish artist David Mach, who once built a submarine out of rubber tires, causing some anti-modern-art protester to set fire to it and accidentally immolate himself.

That's what I call martyrdom, and I trust that 72 ice-blonde statuesque Norse virgins await him in Valhalla. Or at least android versions, should authentic ones be hard to locate.

Mach also built a sort of paper river in flood, with over a million glossy magazines seeming to flow from a large Georgian fireplace. I seem to recall discussing this show with Peter Greenaway -- he liked the fireplace.

Superman comics could be used to build a giant replica of Lois Lane (or, indeed, of Kal-el's interstellar pizzle)... fans could climb right in there and perform strange male rituals in her garishly illustrated fallopians.

And martyrs generated by this process would be stuck in heaven forever with 72 close-up xerox enlargements, in colour, of their own privy members.

Len Cohen made a good point on this topic: <"Remember that neither you nor I is @#$%ing right now, yet once again you have enjoyed the company of my soul.">

However, he may have underestimated the physical ingenuity of some of his readers.

My theory is that they pointed out to him that 'Gates' would've just lifted his own name and thus would've exploited nobody but himself -- a kind of nominal masturbation, if you like.

While 'Windows', in clear contrast, had already been used by the GUI interface designers at Parc Xerox ... and was therefore an act of intellectual violence by <main force>. Not a difficult choice when you look at it like that.

However. I saw an exhibition in Dublin last week, of Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Codex Leicester', a notebook by Leo the Laft, written around 1510. So named because the 1st Earl of Leicester bought it in Italy circa 1717.

And it so turned out that the pre-Gatesian plutocrat Armand Hammer had bought it in 1980, only to up and die, as it were. So Bill G buys it, and instead of calling it Codex Gates or Codex Melinda, he reverts to 'Leicester'.

I call it <Domspeak>, and frequently tell people I invented it.

Couse, I'm the kind of girl who likes to talk loudly in restaurants about subjects she dosn't know anything about.

<Dom> Did <Mach 7> really commit <suppuku>? Is he releated to <Mack>?

Is <Mack> the <Camden Ripper>?

There are other types of male too, but we'll just let them 'talk' amongst themselves. About rugby-, wedding- and fishing-tackle, like as not.

The submarine incident was earlier, a bit before my time. It was the protester who went up in smoke, not the artist. Seemingly this guy objected strenuously to conceptual art -- if he'd only waited 20 years he could have been a leading avant-stuckist, but no, he had to act.

As I heard it, it was a piece made out of house bricks that mainly pissed him off, but Mach's rubber sub was more flammable so he targeted that instead. And somehow accidentally got caught in the conflagration. A martyr for old-fashioned art and paintings that look like things, only flatter.

The irony is that Mach actually has vast technical skill -- you have to be really good to build stuff, as he does, out of a million matchsticks or glossy magazines -- while ensuring both its structural integrity and deeper meanings.

It's funny cuz I don't know him!

This <mach 4> guy sounds interesting, yes. I like to build things too, but so far just dinosaurs outta plasterscene and I can't do their feet right.