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- From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: PC
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:54:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bxu7yp.Dx4@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- References: <1e3862INNi47@plts.uucp> <BxqD02.Dwn@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1e72ujINNet6@plts.uucp>
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- In article <1e72ujINNet6@plts.uucp> tal@plts.uucp (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
- >2) You missed the point. I'm not going to continue this because soc.bi
- >isn't the right forum.
-
- Oh, I'm sorry. I thought the point was "I want to save the earth" was
- interpreted as a heartfelt belief, albeit vague, and "i want to
- recycle paper cups" was interpreted as PC cant, because it was a
- stock phrase of woolly-minded wannabe ecologists who repeated what
- they heard verbatim wthout thinking about it.
-
- Since you're still using your signature in this forum, it does seem
- like a suitable place to continue. Perhaps you'd enlighten me as
- to its true significance...?
-
- >Tom
- >--
- >Tom Limoncelli -- tal@plts.uucp (home) -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work)
- >When I said, "save the earth!" everyone cheered.
- >When I said, "why are you using styrofoam cups which don't recycle?"
- >everyone called me "PC" and told me to go away.
-
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- G
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