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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:01:11 EST
- From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <92325.170111SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Are you a Young Transplant?
- References: <1992Nov15.210121.18247@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- <1992Nov17.000122.2248@netcom.com> <1992Nov17.205924.11582@b8.b8.ingr.com>
- <lgipf2INN78a@news.bbn.com> <MARTINC.92Nov18123935@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
- <92324.030132SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- <MARTINC.92Nov19194633@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
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- In article <MARTINC.92Nov19194633@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>,
- martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) says:
- >
- >In article <92324.030132SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA
- >(Graydon) writes:
- >
- > Um, Charlie, have you ever had some cute wee slip of a thing come
- > after you with intent to do bodily harm?
- >
- >Are we counting the property settlement in my divorce?
- >--
- > Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
-
- I don't know, was the axe metaphorical?
-
- I was refering to the interesting complex of reactions that tends to
- occur in persons not utterly devoid of imagination when someone who
- (rationally, by surface appearances, etc) have a prayer of inflicting
- serious harm attempts to do so. People start wondering about
- poisoned fingernails, 9th dan black belts in obscure martial arts
- specializing in causing compound fractures, and so forth. Tends
- to fluster people badly.
-
- So they take threats seriously, whereas someone who looks like Bluto
- ought not to need to make the threat in the first place, so they must
- be joking.
-
- Graydon
-