Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!zehntel!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:agz From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Please explain this Message-ID: <436@pucc-k> Date: Sat, 13-Oct-84 10:51:45 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-k.436 Posted: Sat Oct 13 10:51:45 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 03:34:10 EDT References: <488@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University Lines: 17 > I don't want to unintentionally offend anyone, so I ask for clarification > of the following expression which I often see on the net. When somebody > says that XYZ is "THE Indiana University", is this a compliment or an > insult? This all depends on hwere you're looking at it from. If you live IN and are from Indiana (in most cases) you would think it was a compliment. Of course the out-of-staters realize that it is, in fact, and insult. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Banta {decvax!allegra!ihnp4}!pur-ee!pucc-k!agz Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University --- "I'm OK, You're a CS Major" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "When you were done, you just threw down the blade, And the red blood spread like the anger you'd made."