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- From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Bear Crap
- Message-ID: <69737@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:07:43 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <michaelh.721908229@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- <1992Nov16.163852.19134@spdcc.com>
- <michaelh.721963181@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> <17035@umd5.umd.edu>
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- J. N. Shaumeyer writes:
- >Mike Hennahane (michaelh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
- >> .... the point of my
- >> posting (and melinda's i think) is that i get crabby sometimes reading
- >> yet another GDM whiny evangelical hell-fire bears uber alles posting.
- >> [...]
-
- >Have you considered that it might be *important* to
- >some people, that it is something which they do not
- >take lightly?
-
- I don't think he, or many other people, have -- at all.
-
- "Oh, it's *JUST* a beard -- it would grow back!"
-
- But just try getting one of these people to give up something of
- *THEIRS* that they identify with, and you get a fight just as
- intense.
-
- Imagine trying to talk someone into converting their religion
- because YOU think it's a bit silly -- or trying to get someone of
- an ethnic minority to undergo plastic surgery and/or skin
- treatments to look more Caucasian. You'd probably get your face
- ripped off, and you also probably wouldn't get much damn
- sympathy for it from anyone with 3 firing neurons.
-
-
- () [M]y definition of a Teddy Bear:
- () A Grizzly Bear, on good behavior, complete with paws
- () and claws... and not ALWAYS on good behavior....
- () -- Bear Leather
- -----
- [> George D. Madison | NBCS: B8f+t+w-e+s+k+a!cv | Just say NO to razors! <]
- [> It's a BEAR thing -- you wouldn't understand. <|> furr@cup.portal.com <]
-