Thanks Mark! I was wondering about the J****a thing, now I know. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "=Mark" <mstevens@exit109.com> Sent: Thursday, 17 January, 2002 5:23 PM Subject: RE: [CH] Intro/new subscriber: > At 03:41 PM 1/17/02 -0600, Barton, Robert wrote: > >Please refresh my memory. What is jic*ma? Is that the green spiky thing > >that looks like a little alien? > > > >BobMan > Somebody innocently posted a recipe for the Jicama Vidalia salsa when their > mail server evidently suffered some sort of seizure. Within days the list > was spewing out hundreds of copies of that message, clogging everyones > mailboxes. Every once in a while when someone starts posting multiple > copies of a note they are referred to as having gone into "jicama vidalia > mode." > =Mark "Runs With Scissors" Stevens