Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:59:51 -0500

From: "Dennis R. Preston" preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PILOT.MSU.EDU

Subject: Re: hurl v.i.



To hurl - to upchuck, to toss your cookies, to hug the great white whale,

to pray before the alabaster god, to barf. In short, to throw up.



Dennis (who alays hopes it is the last time)



The current issue of "The Net" magazine has a page of parody haikus culled from

the WWW, among which is:



Angst-ridden poet

Can this guy be serious?

I think I might hurl





What does hurl mean?



With best wishes,



Orin Hargraves