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- From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Scooby Alert!
- Date: 31 Jul 1992 07:05:22 GMT
- Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
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- References: <1992Jul25.152621.23099@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <92209.132614CEG112@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Jul28.121519.1354@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu> <92210.194707JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- (Jenni "Danforth" Sheehey) writes:
- >Peeve: being held responsible for all 1000+ people on PSUVM.
-
- 1) We don't hold you responsible, we just notice trends, and 2) if
- we wanted any comeback from you, we'd merely scrape your throat.
-
- >Well, if you mean that as: "A person who, for some reason (Me: being
- >from PSUVM, DQ: being generally not too bright) ends up being a target
- >for unimaginative people who take parts of what they say out of context
- >and ridicule them regardless of the merit of the ideas behind them,"
- >I guess I can see the parallel.
-
- The parallel, Jen, is that you're both spouting ridiculous ideas
- that, at only a very superficial level, sound reasonable. You both
- think you're knitting Grand Ideas for a Better America and don't
- realize you each just have a mass of knotted and tangled yarn on
- your lap. It's a result of viewing the world's problems through
- down-home, toe-in-the-dirt, paint-a-happy-face glasses.
-
- >FreeFact: Most people polled in all of the radio polls by major stations
- >agreed with Dan Quayle that a child is better off with both parents.
-
- HEAR YE! HEAR YE! Dan Quayle is *not* a dunce because a majority,
- nay, a *vast* majority of the populace agreed with him on a
- true/false matter of opinion. Did you ever take something like an
- "Introduction to Logic" philosophy course, or was your entire
- curricula devoted to improving your ability to *sing* "For here or to
- go?"
-
- drew
- banta@abingdon.sun.com
- --
- I suppose that if I were a baseball fan I'd get equally peeved at
- "RBIs," but the only stick-and-ball-type sport I watch much of is
- women's beach volleyball with the sound turned off.
- -- Scott Fisher
-