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- From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
- Subject: Re: putrid weapons policy ( was: Re: Boskone )
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:48:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.184823.29129@julian.uwo.ca>
- Keywords: You can have my stave when you pry it from my cold dead hand!
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- In article <1993Jan8.041605.12398@csus.edu> gharlane@nextnet.csus.edu (Gharlane of Eddore) writes:
- >Joel Polowin commented:
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- On Boskone's weapon policy
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- >> If it CAN be used as a weapon, it IS a weapon. Any and all objects
- >> which can be used to harm someone in any way must be left in the room.
- >>
- Commentary demonstrating Polowin's first sentence deleted
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- Other stuff deleted
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- >> How could this be boring? The only problem would be keeping the
- >> vice squad off your butts... :-)
- >
- >Trust a Canuck to go along with idiotic weapons-control policies, and
- >then do an auto-default to sex-crime concepts. I decline to consider
- >why Joel feels that our collective (or singular!) butts might constitute
- >a danger to society, even in the eyes of the local P.D.
-
- This is Garlane of Eddore, January's Poster-child for the
- Humour-Challenged Persons of America. Please give generously, and
- someday even little Garlane will recognise sarcasm. Humour Deficit
- syndrome can be beaten!
-
- >----There are some things I honestly feel I Was Not Meant To Know.
-
- And you demonstrate that *so* well.
-
- James Nicoll
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