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- From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 07:27:07 GMT
- Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
- Message-ID: <122420168@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- References: <1992Dec28.045418.8905@rock.concert.net>
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- In alt.callahans, dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs) writes:
-
- > In article <122420167@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- > daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
- > >
- > >Callahans is a usenet news group. Nothing more.
- >
- > Let me see now, was that CIAGDH or CIAWOL? I tend to view it more as the
- > former, but I recognize that others may see it as more than that.
-
- Diversity has a way of being different.
-
- >
- > (For the acronym impared, the reference is to the perennial debate of
- > Fandom Is A God Damned Hobby vs. Fandom Is A Way Of Life that so often
- > splits the fannish community. It's been debated time and again, as has
- > this issue been hashed over many times here. Personally, I think that both
- > sides are right, and leave it at that.)
-
- Fandom is, of course, a foul and pernicious waste of the resources of
- human intelligence granted by many years of evolution. And NO,
- the word "pernicious" is in no way assoctiated with Pern.
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- doug
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