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- Path: sparky!uunet!tcsi.com!hermes!miket
- From: miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.)
- Subject: Re: Purity
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.180947.21747@tcsi.com>
- Sender: news@tcsi.com
- Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
- References: <1993Jan6.013546.16827@tcsi.com> <93005.234647SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1993Jan6.170050.4120@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:09:47 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1993Jan6.170050.4120@vpnet.chi.il.us> orc@vpnet.chi.il.us (david parsons) writes:
- >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"
-
- This is absolutely true. I finally dumped Grayson into the "obtuse"
- bin, containing *another* group of people with whom you can't win.
-
- Is "anal-compulsive sorting disorder" yet another bin, by the way?
-
- --Mike
-
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- Michael Turner
- miket@tcs.com
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