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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: No Wise Man here (Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.043240.24410@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Dec25.091537.28480@nevada.edu> <1992Dec25.173805.6739@spdcc.com> <JMC.92Dec25115357@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:32:40 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec25115357@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >Still calling someone a `(fat lazy ,X) is a sin of minor proportions.
-
- For some X. :-)
-
- >I expect I have been called fat and lazy, though not to my face. My
- >second wife sometimes referred to me as "my fat husband" - most often
- >when it was a question of climbing some mountain.
-
- If someone should call me "fat and lazy" based on my hacker's physique
- and my lack of mountaineering skills, I won't have much ground to
- disagree. If someone chooses to call me a "fat, lazy homo" in the
- context of discussing my "oeuvre" (such as it is), I think that person
- is sorely in need of better critical terms. The insult misses the mark
- (that it's also a fact is neither here nor there, since the intent is
- not to describe but to disparage). It also leaves the critic open to
- charges that s/he has a bit of a problem with fat, lazy homos in
- general, or perhaps even with all homos.
-
- Anyway, I thought Michael stepped out of the fray with a perfectly acceptable
- apology which managed to note that offense was taken without the requisite
- display of dudgeon. That alone is pretty classy.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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