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- From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
- Subject: Re: Veteran's Day
- Sender: news@acs.ucalgary.ca (USENET News System)
- Message-ID: <92Nov16.153935.21684@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 15:39:35 GMT
- References: <9211131020.AA10500@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk> <1e0mc2INN6k4@agate.berkeley.edu> <Bxo3wv.Hxz@cs.dal.ca>
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- In article <Bxo3wv.Hxz@cs.dal.ca> franklin@thans.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
- >In article <1e0mc2INN6k4@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- >
- >>Veteran's Day is when they trot out a lot of withered geeks in
- >>wheelchairs whose only distinction is that they ran fast enough
- >>at the Battle of the Bulge or Inchon or Khe Sanh to avoid getting
- >>the butchering they so richly deserved.
- >
- >Peeve: Cowards who feel the need to trivialize and joke about the heroes of
- >the past, when they dont' even have the balls to go to the bathroom by
- >themselves yet.
-
- Peeve: Morons who are apparantly unable to understand concepts
- like sarcasm, black humour, cynicism, or humorous outrage.
-
- Anyone actually paying attention to the post would have noticed
- that it was really an indictment of the kind of assholes who can
- cry crocodile tears onto a war memorial...Like the presidents
- who send them off to die, whilst staying safely home behind
- their (temporarily) living shield.
-
- Quit being an ass.
-
- Regards, Charles
- --
- Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
- separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
- struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
- gourd. --Unknown net.person
-