home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sun-barr!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!rbbb!chased
- From: chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Subject: Re: Why Do We Have Separate Restrooms? (WAS Re: Gays, the military...)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:30:16 GMT
- Organization: Sun
- Lines: 21
- Message-ID: <llujh8INN6i9@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <llmik4INN77p@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1993Jan19.021637.21966@netcom.com> <1993Jan21.195429.6472@island.COM>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: rbbb
-
- In article <1993Jan21.195429.6472@island.COM> guido@island.COM (Guido Marx) writes:
- >Quite simple really. In my experience, people who were athletes were
- >not typical of the people I knew in high school (particularly the
- >football players). ...
-
- >Remember when Joe Gibbs (the head coach of the Washington Redskins)
- >asked "Who's Ollie North" ? ... How many people do you know who have
- >never heard of Ollie North ?
-
- To be fair (and sticking to the statistical correctness that I've been
- demanding of Phil) this is all pretty anecdotal (though it does look
- pretty much like my anecdotes). Similarly, though I don't know
- anyone ignorant of who Ollie North is, I'm sure that such people
- exist, and a single instance of such a person doesn't really indicate
- much about professional athletes as a whole.
-
- Andecotes can be interesting, fun, and entertaining, but that's about
- it.
-
- David Chase
- Sun
-