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- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: i say kill bush
- Message-ID: <7878@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:02:20 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.063938.11566@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov5.145747.26765@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Nov6.163251.2119@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov6.163251.2119@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- milliken@athena.cs.uga.edu (Brewmeister) writes:
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- # If your remarks were made in jest, the jocularity was lost, partly due
- # to the lack of verbal inflections / facial expressions inherent in this
- # form of communication, and partly because you are saying serious stuff.
- # [...] to advocate taking human life, whether of a president or of a
- # sanitation worker, is wrong, legal or not.
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- Come off it. What he said was:
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- % i want bush's head on a pike stuck in my front lawn.
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- This is obviously just a vivid figure of speech and not a threat
- intended to be taken seriously, even by the humour impaired. (cf. `I
- want Margaret Thatcher's head on a platter', `Die, rat bastard!', etc.
- etc.) Mark you, the first woman to demand a man's head on a platter
- actually received it.
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- # [...] read 1984, by George Orwell.
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- It's `Nineteen Eighty-Four', not 1984, and the analogy is inappropriate:
- the purpose of Room 101 was not to make suspects talk, but to force them
- to betray their closest ones and, thereby, to lose their love and
- respect.
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