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- Message-ID: <28JAN93.11397012.0152.MUSIC@SDSUMUS.SDSTATE.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:33:09 CST
- Sender: New Ways of Thinking List <FNORD-L@UBVM.BITNET>
- From: "rufus t. firefly" <U9AA@SDSUMUS.SDSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Nitrous Oxide--no laughing matter
- In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of THU 28 JAN 1993 00:07:20 CST
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- > 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.
- >
- > ..............................................................
- > : Otto Dailey | Pharmacological Research Dept. :
- > : Ph.D. Staff | Mayo Clinic :
- > : Researcher | voice (714) 831-6642 :
- > : odailey@n2o.mayo.edu | fax (714) 835-4000 :
- > ..............................................................
-
-
- you need to give up that nitrous crap, brother. here, i got some
- frop in my backpack. just slide it twixt your teeth and gum, it's a
- wild rush, SLACK CITY HERE WE COME!!!
-
- ACCEPT *BOB* INTO YOUR WALLET TODAY!!!!
-
- rtf, primate, last church of cashew nuts
-