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- From: mortoncp@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
- Subject: Re: Jive autobiography and RHIT bashing
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 20:38:56 GMT
- Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1992Nov16.160838.28215@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr) writes:
- >
- >As far as we've been able to tell, the campus sport at Rose-Hulman
- >Institute of Technology is playing tricks on the hearing-impaired.
- >Apparently they're tiring of this and moving on to racism. Ha ha, those
- >Rose-Hulman guys just crack me up! Not.
- >
- >
- Okay, folks. I am one of the Rose-Hulman guys that reads and has posted
- regarding Omar. There have been a LOT of flames back and forth that are
- totally uncalled for (in both directions). I'll just try to clear a few things
- up here. Even if some of you don't believe me.
-
- We DO NOT play tricks on Omar because he's hearing-impaired. Just ask Ryan
- Moore who posted here earlier. We also do not pick on Omar because he's in
- a minority. There are several others here who are minorities and they don't
- have tricks played on them due to racist attitudes.
-
- This "Jive" version of Omar's autobiography was created by running the
- biography through the "Jive" filter. It just looks for keywords and replaces
- them. Very simple program. It is meant as humor, not racism. In case some of
- you have missed it, Omar is American. Born and raised in Austin, Texas. True,
- his parents are Pakistani (sp?), but he's very much American.
-
- Out of curiosity, who's this "we" that you referred to in your first line?
-
- [cutting the reposted "Jive" version]
-
- >>
- >>Okay, so I was bored :)
- >
- >
- >Thanks for sharing your boredom with us.
- >
-
- Thanks for reposting the entire "Jive" version of the autobiography.
-
- >Jerk.
- >
-
- Name calling? On Allen? He just posted something that he thought was funny
- (and I did too). He did not mean it as a racist posting. If you chose to
- treat is as such, that's your choice. If anybody has any calm (and
- intelligent) comments to make, I'd be glad to hear them. General flames will
- be ignored.
-
- mortoncp@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
- mortoncp@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
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