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- From: orc@vpnet.chi.il.us (david parsons)
- Subject: Re: Purity
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.170050.4120@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Department of Atomic Text Units
- References: <93005.004022SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1993Jan6.013546.16827@tcsi.com> <93005.234647SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:00:50 GMT
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- In article <93005.234647SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- [about using bizarre labels for himself]
-
- |Well, I've got several objectives in answering a 'what are you?'
- |question; one is to give them something that they don't have bin
- |for.
- .
- .
- .
- |Another objective is to find out how annoyed the person who asked
- |the question gets when someone does not co-operate by providing the
- |name of their bin.
-
- The people who compulsively sort people into bins will have a
- bin for _everyone_, despite how you try to get out. You really and
- truly can't win against an anal-compulsive sorting disorder.
- ____
- david parsons \bi/ "bin 7, yes, the one with the flashing neon tubes
- \/ and radwaste warning"
-