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- From: rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: "homo"
- Message-ID: <RHAYDEN.92Nov15180412@hqsun2.oracle.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 02:04:12 GMT
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- In article <1e65chINNepb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ai888@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Flesher) writes:
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- A benighted adolescent in my neighborhood yelled "homo" at me
- this morning, and I, remembering the etymology of "homosexual",
- thought: how ironic it is that this boy is trying to reassure himself that
- I am something he would never be by in effect shouting "same" at me.
-
- From the restaurant owner in "Murphy Brown":
-
- "You picked a bad day. Pat Buchanan's here, and he's passing out a
- petition to get the name of the species changed to hetero-sapien..."
-
-
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- - Ronald Hayden
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- | Co-chair of Oracle Lambda, Oracle's Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual group |
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