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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: TA DA!!  2nd Cosmic ASS Awards!!
Message-ID: <1224@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 00:17:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 29 00:17:27 1985
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> And now my buddy Ken Perlow (standing in for Chui von Rospatch). 

Hey--watch your language!  Nobody accuses me of standing in.
Maybe sitting in (it was fall of '69, there were 106 of us in the
Administration Bldg...)

> He claims I, "go right for the jugular by misspelling names and
> INSULTING THEIR EMPLOYER!" Well, Ken I'm NOT insulting their
> employers (which happened in this case to be YOUR employer too -
> any motivation for your complaint there?) but merely asking if
> the ole company had sold any PCs lately.  If you see that as an
> insult then I believe YOU are insulting your company or at the
> very least are embarrassed at the question. 

Yeah, right, Ken.  Look, I don't really care what you say about AT&T
(whose PC sales are reportedly brisk, thank you).  I'm sure your
sychophantic "everybody-has-to-serve-somebody" brain could not
possibly comprehend the distinction between working *AT* The Labs
and working *FOR* them, so I won't bother to try.  It's something
only a self-motivated perfectionist would understand. 

But hey, reread your own flame--you hurled insults both *ad hominem*
and *ad dominum hominis*.  You did it well, too.  You practically
invented the "ad dominum" (I merely named it herewith).  Yet now you try
to weasel out of it.  Why run and hide?  Ashamed?

>                                  ... As for misspelling names . .
> welllllll.  I only call'em as I see'em and besides, that's what
> their mommy would have named 'em if she had known how they were
> going to turn out.

Hmmm, it hadn't dawned on me--you're not going bonkers so much
as going blind.  Must be from staring at a faulty CRT in your damp,
dark little cubicle.  Perhaps if you toadied up to your boss just
a little harder...

>		      How much of Bell time did you use up thinking
> up 'MIASMA'??  No wonder the machines are late to market! Opps!

Gee, Ken, does it bother you that one of your detractors is literate?
"Opps" indeed.

> Ken Arndt
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