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- From: iigorodisher@mmm.com (Ilya Gorodisher)
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- Subject: Re: The Right Rev. unmasked: Don Quixote lives.
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- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 18:10:04 GMT
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- References: <113306Z14011996@anon.penet.fi> <4dbpkr$4tu@sundog.tiac.net> <4djvoj$evm@jacana.tusc.com.au> <4dm4r9$l4a@news.bu.edu>
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- In Article <4dm4r9$l4a@news.bu.edu>, mi@bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) wrote:
- >Some time ago (17 Jan 1996 23:12:19 GMT) honorable Nigel McFarlane,
- > residing at nrm@tusc.com.au wrote:
- >
- >| Colin, I hereby rename you "Don Quixote". Please see almost
- >| anyone who you've entertained to date for the dishrag you may
- >| carry as a ladies favour.
- >
- >To protect the famous literature hero, Don Quixote was fighting
- >himself, as opposite to complaining to authorities (there were
- >some in Spain already).
- >
- >Making fun of the Colon Jerk the 3rd becomes harder, when you relize
- >how much harm he already managed to produce. If you read some more of
- >his posts, you may see, that he indeed knows how to reach powers like
- >INS (in the US). And I remember him asking for a "defamation lawyer" in
- >Sweeden (?). God knows if he found one, and someone else may be on hot
- >seat now. Not everybody's boss is smart and/or decent );.
-
- Misha,
- Nigel might not know, but you...? We already have a Don Quixote in Bill Palmer.
- End of story.
-
- (The fact that DQ <boy, could i go for a blizzard!> was a benign, harmless,
- romantic idealist is irrelevant: aren't all of us <humans> who are still on
- scr just that?)
- - ilya
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