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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:58:42 EST
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- Subject: Re: Nitrous Oxide--no laughing matter
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 28 Jan 1993 11:07:20 -0500 from <odailey@N2O.MAYO.EDU>
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- On Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:07:20 -0500 <odailey@N2O.MAYO.EDU> said:
- >There has been much on this newslist which i for one have
- >found to be somewhat objectionable. Personally, i think
- >it was a mistake to let this sort of unrestrained nihilistic
- >chaotic rambling to go unmoderated for so long! It starts
- >perhaps, with Martin Luther or Copernicus, but it ends up
- >with Robert Mapplethorpe!
- >
- >The last straw, for me, was the irresponsible and scurrilious
- >casual reference to the anesthetic gas, nitrous oxide, commonly
- >referred to in the popular parlance as "laughing gas".
- >
- >This sort of casual drug reference is just the sort of thing
- >which encourages our young people, many of whom are currently
- >reading these messages through the terminals they are provided
- >with at their local university or community college, and this
- >is happening at a time in there lives when some of them are
- >very impressionable about such things as casual sex and illicit
- >drug use. I find this very frustrating, given my background in
- >research into the psychology of human drug addictions. My
- >research indicates that much of our drug problems are due to
- >incorrect socialization practices, such as what I am seeing on
- >this newslist.
- >
- >I call for the moderator to step in at this point and help
- >alleviate some of this serious, serious problem.
- >
-
- I agree. I, for one, found my recent reference to weasels extremely
- offensive. It hasn't been widely reported, but weasels in general
- suffer a higher rate of addiction to laughing gas than any other
- species of the genus Mustela. Furthermore, weasels all over the
- country are reading this in their little dens, chewing on sparrow
- heads and laughing like crazy. I think the moderator should step
- in and forbid me from ever mentioning weasels again, lest I be held
- responsible for some poor little weasel child loosing his daddy to
- the hunter's snare.
- Another thing that's offensive- the word "Furthermore". Some of you
- may recall the previous paragraph, in which the author made scandalous
- reference to this problematic word. "Furthermore" seems to be creeping
- into more and more posts on this list, just as it crept into this
- sentence- the very beginning of this sentence, mind you- almost without
- my knowing it. If we don't want to drown in a pustulant sea of
- furthermores, I call on the narrator to ban this word forthwith.
- We won't even talk about the word "forthwith".
- There's been a lot of talk lately, too, about butterflies doing terrible
- things to caterpillars. Many butterflies have struggled long and hard
- to overcome debilitating caterpillar addictions, and I for one do not
- appreciate this serious social problem being treated as an opportunity
- for sophomoric jocularity.
- Take heed, Majcher- clean up this list, or I will. I have munitions.
-
- Cuthbert
-