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- From: bgray@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
- Subject: Re: Smiths & Joneses
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.021509.26405@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- References: <15556@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 02:15:09 GMT
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- This is dreas (Andreas Tovornik) posting on a borrowed account.
- I'd like to thank Bob Gray for letting me do this!! :+Q
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- In article 15556@auspex-gw.auspex.com, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.190225.14601@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
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- >|I have been looking through my email files lately and made a discovery...
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- >|"Smith" and "Jones" appear to be names as common as they are portrayed in
- >|many stereotypes...These names are also portrayed in such a way as to invoke
- >|images of averageness or dullness.
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- >You haven't met Nina, I guess.
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- Indeed I have...Can't get to my email for a bit(Sorry, Nina!)
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- >|To all the Smiths and Joneses in my files:
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- >|Thank you for destroying a stereotype and killing some myths about your
- >|last names...At least in my imagination.
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- >We'll, maybe you have.
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- ThanxAlot, John! :+)
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- dreas
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