Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!deimos!uxc!tank!mimsy!chris
From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: sexist language
Message-ID: <14800@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 88 02:46:49 GMT
References: <17669@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <17669@adm.BRL.MIL> rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>In the meantime, decode the following: nite, tho, enuf, grafix, alfa.

Curiously, I first read the last word as `alfalfa'.

I should also point out that `Man hours', whether sexist or not, is
`speciesist'.  After all, half my hours are Elf-hours....

( :-) ? )
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