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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.012417.4831@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1993Jan24.091528.2336@netcom.com> <thurlow.727889563@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 01:24:17 GMT
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- In article <thurlow.727889563@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
- >In <1993Jan24.091528.2336@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
- >
- >> Sure and by the way I am 30. I like, in alphabetical order:
- >
- >[Mr. Data dumps his database]
- >
- >Boy, now that was sure what I had hoped to read today on soc.singles!
- >A computer generated list of artists like "Browne, Jackson". Be still
- >my beating heart! Just the raw data I wanted! Happy, happy! Joy, joy!
- >
- >Hint: if you're trying on any level to portray yourself as a human
- >being with warmth and emotions, it's not working. You come across
- >in almost any article I read by you as a logical little automaton
- >with Spock ears. If that's really what you're like, please accept
- >my apologies for making a big deal about it.
-
- Funny, I don't recall getting that impression from his posts, either
- recently or in past months. However, back during the "Pre-Sex-Contract"
- flame-fest, I seem to recall a bunch of people who reacted with such a
- lack of emotional control or rationality that perhaps even David's
- return flames seemed so logical by comparison as to seem almost Spockian.
-
- Trygve
- --
- "I never would have guessed that Grandma would have brought a severed
- head back from the 7-11, which was reasonable, because she never did."
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