permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <hemenway@jeffnet.org>]

> > "Que teng cuidado wid dat stuff!"

Knowing too well how Rick's mind works--he abbreviates everything--my 
guess is that "Teng" is a reference to dead Chinese leader Deng Xiao 
Peng, using the  "T" as a D sound (as in Tao). Cuidado is just Rick, a 
notoriously bad typist, trying to type the Spanish word for city, 
ciudad, and "wid" is shorthand for old English "widdershins," meaning 
backward. Dat is Digital Audio Tape, so what I get is:

"The backwards digital audio tape is about that stuff in the dead 
Chinese Imperial City."

Rick, am I close?

Toby, with apologies for the OT clutter. What is permaculture, anyway?