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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: Project B.F.D. (was: An apology)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.073314.10674@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Dec24.005928.8573@Cadence.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:33:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.005928.8573@Cadence.COM> vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni) writes:
- > you've got this all wrong. The motive, I think, is not so much a noble
- > protection of the trodden-upon as a selfish interest in not having every
- > new, interesting, reasonably-clever poster sent scrambling off into
- > oblivion after being scared (or pissed) off by, for instance, one of
- > Tom's lapses into the literary equivalent of Torret's syndrome. (sp?)
-
- Tourette's Syndrome includes an irresistable compulsion to emit
- profanity at _inappropriate_ times. Though it appears rarely in
- females, perhaps you were thinking of Heather's most recent articles.
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- Steve Dyer
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