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escape goat

Posted Mar 26th, 2009 at 11:21 PM by ravage
Updated Mar 26th, 2009 at 11:31 PM by ravage

I saw this phrase used on GS today. It is one of my favourite abuses of the language, feels so homely. "I am not your escape goat". As a term its so much more sensible than scapegoat, which really doesnt mean anything as opposed to escape goat. You are looking to escape from a situation, and basically treating me like a goat (the latter part could be improved upon)

When I was in undergrad (in the early part of this waning decade) I was big on batch mails to the whole class. I know. Big surprise. One of my favourite targets was Aladin urf Einstein. He used to send abysmally soppy love poems on the batch email list, deep expressions of his romantic side. Ofcourse he was mercilessly mocked. It used to be a hobby of mine, I even wrote a parody short story with a friend.. not particularly well written or recieved, but still great fun. But then, stuff happened, we got accused of being heartless in the mockery, it got serious, and I stopped responding to his 'golab' mails.

But he forces my hand. Today he sent to the uni list the following mail:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Einstein

Hey guys,

I need a cock/chicken song... it goes with chicken lyrics as if he/she is singing 'cock.cock.cock'.... speed and pitch increases with time. i have its sample on my mobile bt i forgot my data cable at home

Why? Why would you send something so ridiculous that one can be biffed for in so many ways to the whole uni? What kind of emergency need would you have for this cock/chicken song that you cannot wait to get home to transfer it, and instead need to mail the university group? It is disturbing. And this is after a mail he sent two weeks ago, with the following query:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Einstein

Anybody got song or link to the chicken song, that is whole song in chicken 'cock cock' something???

The guy was asking for it.

Well I guess I kindof gloss over the facts, this wasnt my first response to Einsteins golab mails. A few days ago he sent an email with the subject as "Anyone living in Kampala, Uganda?". This is an odd question to ask, and you would expect some elaboration in the mail, but this is what the email said:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Einstein

Is there anyone living in Kampala,Uganda???

Very reasonably I replied saying "probably lots of people there yar". To which he testily says "question was for those living there...and only those should reply". Now I ask you, is that reasonable?

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	I got an email recently with the subject: "Men's Toy". I initially thought it was spam so was surprised to see it in my inbox instead of bulk mail. Turns out it was someone i knew who had sent it, the body of the email being simply pictures of a new swiss knife of some sort.
	Posted Mar 26th, 2009 at 11:30 PM by Cheegum

	was that deliberate?
	Posted Mar 26th, 2009 at 11:40 PM by ravage

	I used to have a goat named toto. They had internet when you were doing your undergrad?
	Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 12:16 AM by belle

you think im old... say it

welllll actually in my first year we only had email... second year some of the labs had internet (the whole college had a single dialup line).. third and fourth year we had email and a chatting program (mirc) in the hostel rooms and some internet hours too

one of our friends used to be the centralized downloader/network admin... he would take requests from people to download stuff and would share them on the network. the college had an unhealthy attachment to Friends those days

ps: what happened to toto. barbecue?

Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 12:33 AM by ravage ravage is offline

	THIS IS THE RAVAGE i KNOW AND ADORE!!!!!
	Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 12:44 AM by hitchki

	halarious ravage...
	Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 01:04 AM by sadzzz

	hicccie! theres my target audience! what were you doing awake at that hour and why did you abandon me before? sadzzz.. shukria
	Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 02:22 AM by ravage

	No ravage, thats the funny part. It wasn't deliberate
	Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 07:48 AM by Cheegum

	wow. simply wowing. mostly i'm wowing at how old you are.
	Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 07:55 AM by Khumar

	Hahaha .I actually know someone exactly like this..lol poor guy. He gets to be everyones 'escape goat'.
	Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 10:47 AM by s_mk

	Khumar.. im going to recruit a 17 year old to come take my revenge for me
	Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 02:42 PM by ravage

	17 year olds don't bother me yet.
	Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 03:23 PM by Khumar

	I need an escape goat in my office, any time the boss comes in when things get cocked up, I let my goat loose on him while I escape, hence, escape goat.
	Posted Mar 27th, 2009 at 03:28 PM by aahmed