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- From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
- Subject: Re: Minor Technical Question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.084338.18278@wetware.com>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:43:38 GMT
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- lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
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- ] In article <1993Jan21.062627.24905@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
- ] : lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
- ] : ]
- ] : ] Sure, there's a sucker born every minute--and the stupid ones turn into cynics.
- ] :
- ] : Are you suggesting that one NOT
- ] : take everything said in a
- ] : Political Campaign at Strick Biblical Literal Face Value?????
- ]
- ] Sarcasm and cynicism should not be confused with each other. The
- ] sarcastic person, while getting trampled on the way out of the burning
- ] theatre, says "Maybe we were better off inside." The cynic stays inside
- ] and shoots everybody he can, on the assumption he's saving people from
- ] trampling...
-
- Larry,
-
- Thank you for the distinction.
-
- Now before we do a movie date, can
- I ask which group you are? And whether
- or not we should be sitting in the smoking section?
-
- ciao
- drieux
-
- ps: or is that why americans longer have a
- smokong section? For fear that they would
- also have to have one for cynics?
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- MajorModernDayProblems:
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- "If you will not talk with Yourself,
- Why should anyone else?"
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