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- Subject: Re: Those whacky, flakey, Satan worshippers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.190030.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
- From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
- Date: 22 Nov 92 19:00:30 MST
- References: <1992Nov22.234515.434@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov22.234515.434@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vance Kochenderfer) writes:
- > SATAN-WORSHIPPING BOY SENT HOME FROM SCHOOL
- >
- > COLORADO CITY, Ariz. - A 14-year-old boy was sent home from school for
- > wearing a "Batman Returns" Penguin T-shirt.
-
- To our international audience:
-
- Colorado City is in the far north of Arizona, right next to the Utah
- border. It is heavily Mormon, heavily inbred, and polygamous. In fact
- its claim to fame is that it has successfully thumbed its nose at state
- and federal officials who have tried to enforce anti-polygamy laws.
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- > James Bateman was told to change on Nov. 4 by Colorado City School
- > District Principal Lawrence Steed.
- > Bateman's mother said Steed believed the T-shirt was inappropriate
- > and that it represented devil worship.
-
- This sounds plausible.
-
- (YES, another afu motto.)
- --
- Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
- f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."
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- "[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
- -- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
- "The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
- -- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
-