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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:12:56 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: signoff
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- From: Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
- >
- > Whoever suggested that is precisely the type of person who doesn't belong
- > on Words-L. To borrow a phrase from GT, they're overly anal-retentive
- > pillocks.
- > In short, they can go stuff it.
- > -abh
-
- The image of stuffing overly anal-retentive pillocks is quite entertaining.
- At the other end, I suppose, one might tell an overly diarrheic doxy to
- loosen up a bit.
-
- On the other hand, supposing it wasn't a person on words-l, but a former
- words-ler on another list, or even one of our system managers? We are
- desparately short of disk space right now.
-
- Peter
-