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- From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
- Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.000536.22326@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
- References: <Paula_Lieberman.0702@amicol.UUCP> <1992Nov4.164552.26917@ida.liu.se> <1992Nov4.202447.10362@ra.msstate.edu> <36732@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:05:36 GMT
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- In article <36732@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov4.202447.10362@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
- >
- >>BTW, has everyone got their rubber boots and air filters ready? We'll need
- >>them so that we don't get chicken shit on our feet and to keep the smell of
- >>it from knocking us out.
- >
- >Even if the air did fill with that smell, it's just a smell. One hell of a
- >lot better for your general health than all the toxins the Bush crowd would
- >have continued to pump into the air had they stuck around. Good riddance to
- >bad rubbish.
-
- Funny, I don't seem to recall saying anything about supporting Bush. If I'm
- anti-Clinton, does that make me automatically pro-Bush? Hell, I'm pretty
- liberal for a white-boy from the South: I don't believe in deities, I support
- a woman's right to have an abortion, I don't believe in censorship, and I'd
- love to see a lot less government involvement in people's private lives. But
- I do believe that none of the other problems can be solved without first
- addressing the national debt.
-
- >>Y'all ready for another redneck to screw things up again like Jimmy did? If
- >>you're going to buy a computer, buy it now, because you'll not be able to
- >>once that stupid hillbilly gets in office.
- >
- >Get a clue. If you're comparing IQs, the Bush/Quayle administration set an
- >all time low (its only close competition was the Reagan/Bush administration).
- >I'm proud to have helped to elect a President and Vice President with at least
- >above average intelligence (you don't get to be a Rhodes Scholar by being a
- >"stupid hillbilly").
-
- Again, where have I said anything about supporting Bush or Quayle? If IQ is
- so important, why don't we have nuclear scientists and other smart folks in
- office instead of a bunch of asshole lawyers? And Dave, Ole Miss has never
- had the reputation of being a great school except maybe at the state level,
- but we've had a few Rhodes Scholars.
-
- >Most of my family is from various parts of the South. I'm a first generation
- >Yankee (though I do live in _South_ Jersey), but my Dad's side of the family
- >has been living in Virgina and other parts of the South for 300 years. Being
- >from the South doesn't make you an ignorant hillbilly any more than being from
- >the midwest makes you dull, being from the West makes you a drug crazed hippy,
- >or being from the East makes you misanthropic. I'm considerably offended at
- >your prejudices.
-
- Haven't you figured it out yet? I'm from the South! Hell, I drive a huge
- gas-guzzling Chevy Blazer 4x4, I wear shit-kickers, I drink lots of beer, I
- dance on tables while listening to country music, and I'm probably as much
- a redneck as anyone else who posts on the network. When I go to Chicago and
- New York City, people wonder why in the world I have shoes on and ask me to
- say things just to hear me drawl. Maybe I should be embarrassed, but I was
- raised here and hope to live here and don't feel any need to change.
-
- As for being prejudiced, I'm only taking after certain other groups who feel
- that the only person qualified to criticize a member of a group is another
- member of the same group. Clinton is a redneck, I'm a redneck.
-
- >>Skip Sauls, Not Politically Correct and Damn Proud of It!
- >
- >Politically ignorant sounds more like it.
-
- Oh no, flamed by an Amiga god! What am I to do? Cancel the A4000 order
- that I placed today? No, I forgot, you don't fool with that sort of mid-range
- non-SCSI crap, do you? Too bad you can't seem to get anything that you are
- working on out the door in a timely manner.
-
- >Dave Haynie / Commodore Technology, High-End Amiga Systems Design (cool stuff)
- > "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh BIX: hazy
- > SCIENCE: "I'll believe it when I see it"
- > RELIGION: "I'll see it when I believe it"
-
- Skip Sauls
- skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
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