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- From: mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu (Matthew Crosby)
- Subject: Re: Clinton won; maybe (was Gloat)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.043332.25626@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 04:33:32 GMT
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- In article <1dkh1lINNfkv@chnews.intel.com> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
- >In article <BxF1G7.7L@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM> jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods) writes:
- >>
- >>No, they have a point. 57% DID vote against Clinton. 64% DID vote against
- >>Bush. And a stunning 81% voted against Perot. The CLEAR and LOGICAL answer
- >>is that the American people want NO ONE to be President.
-
- That is kind of weird mathematics! Just because someone votes for someone does
- not necissarily mean they are voting against someone else! Now if 81% had
- written "Go stick your head up a pig!" on their ballot, then possibly that can
- be construed as voting agains.
-
- >
- >That explains a sign I saw today. On a simple rectangle
- >of brown cardboard, hand-lettered and stapled to a simple
- >picket planted in the dirt across the street from the
- >Circle-K, where lots of political placards have been for
- >too long a while, was the single word, "NOT".
- >
- >Perhaps it was merely a modifier for a since-removed,
- >legitimate sign, but here it was alone, and made the
- >most sense.
-
- Ah! But did it say not what?
-
- >
- >Has anyone bought and read _The_Te_of_Piglet_ yet? I need
- >a fair number of inobservant, muddled, prejudiced,
- >inarticulate opinions before I can make up my mind to blow
- >a lunchtime's wages on a used copy of it. And should I
- >get _The_Tao_of_Pooh_, first, or is they both just more new-age
- >crap like _The_Dancing_Wu_Li_Masters_ and _Godel_Escher_Bach_?
-
- I wouldn't call Godel Escher Bach new age crap!
-
- But anyway, I would say that if that is your definition of them, then, yes
- they are.
-
- --
- -Matt
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