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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Minor Catharsis
Message-ID: <1080@shark.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 17:00:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 17:00:13 1984
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| If you people are too fucking stupid to grasp the thread of thought
| running through these articles, why don't you go back to "see spot
| run." Should we all submit any postings we have to you so you can grade
| them for us?  Then you can pass the A and some of the good B+ articles
| through to the net.

Sure, why not?  Actually, rather than that, why not have all these
folks who can't tell the difference between "their" and "they're" go
back to "see spot run" since they clearly never got very much farther.

Alternately, you could have your keepers at the home for the incurably
vulgar go through your articles for spelling, and THEY could assign
you grades.  Especially they could assign grades for each attempt you make
to express your disgust in a creative fashion rather than resorting to
cheap theatrics.

| It only goes to show that people with nothing of substance to
| contribute can still find something to say.  I'd much rather have
| someone who disagrees with my opinion post a scathing rebuttal, than
| have some know-it-all try to correct my grammar.  Read for CONTENT you
| shit heads.  Not to check spelling and punctuation.

Actually, the complaints were not about anybody's grammar.  They were
about the SPELLING of words which sound alike but aren't the same word
and so aren't spelled the same.  These are called homonyms.  Can YOU
spell homonym, gentle reader?  Go ahead, try.  That's right, just copy
it from the article.  Wasn't that easy?  It's just as easy for someone
who has trouble telling which homonym to use, to write down the
different words and meanings, and how they're spelled, and then when
they want to use one, they can look at their list to see!

| [It worked....I do feel better!]
| Jerry


Why, you're RIGHT, it does feel better!  And I didn't even have to
use your favorite new words for the week!

Hutch  (The above article is sarcastic.  In the event that it is
taken seriously, contact your poison control center for information
about antidotes.)