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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.flame
Subject: Re: mod.all and net.fascism (and quotes)
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Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 01:43:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 26 01:43:48 1984
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> Sorry, but I have to disagree with that.  Nobody can *force* adult human
> beings to defend themselves; and certainly not in this context [net news].
Have you ever talked about the weather to someone when a third person was
yelling in your ear about nuclear holocaust? You tend to lose your
concentration after a while, especially when the third party doesn't
understand the term 'shut up or I'll break your face'. I think that was
what was happening in net.motts-- the volume raised to the point where
nothing else could get through.

> > ...Mr. Williams from DEC (I talked to the DEC people about him...)
> 
> Thank you, sir.  You saved me the trouble of finding out where that machine
> was and making the phone call.
*sigh* Thanks, I was getting tired of the hate mail. I hadn't realized I
looked so much like my dear dead (I hope) Uncle Adolph.... 

> >   I'd know those eyes from a million years away....
> 
> Do you make these up yourself, or do you crib them from various places?  I'm
> curious, because occassionally (as in this example) I like them a great deal.

In many cases they're cribbed from something that caught my eye. Recently I
was doing a series from Doonesbury to commemorate his return. With few
exceptions they are chosen to say something, although it may say it to a
very limited audience (I love in jokes). This one happens to be an original
and is aimed at a single person-- that doesn't reduce the fact that I also
think it is a beautiful line on general principles as well. I happen to
really enjoy the English language, and feel sorry that I butcher it as
often as I do.

chuq
-- 
From the Department of Bistromatics:                   Chuq Von Rospach
{cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui  nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA

  I'd know those eyes from a million years away....