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- From: nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
- Subject: Re: Radical feminists
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.042458.13052@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
- References: <725097282snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz> <1992Dec23.183805.26052@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <Bzqu43.L33@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 04:24:58 GMT
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- In article <Bzqu43.L33@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.183805.26052@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> uhde@ollie.jsc.nasa.gov (Jo Uhde) writes:
- >
- >Whatever gives you the idea that I am humour impaired? I appreciate a
- >good joke when I see one. But these "radical feminists" aren't joking!
- >And from the foll. passage, I don't consider Chakravarthi to be a
- >radical feminist, I simply find him to be a person *misguided* by
- >these feminists.
- >
- >I will relate the following exchange between Chucks, and another
- >>Indian friend, Vaman:
- >>
- >>CHUCKS: Vaman, you must change your name in order to be PC.
- >>
- > [..rest deleted...]
- >
- >What is PC???
- >All I can think of is "personal computer".
- >
- >Could someone please explain?
-
- That does it! I've been wondering for a while if Mandar was just putting
- us on, and this convinces me. Could anyone seriously deny being humour
- impaired, then take a simple joke at face value? And a self-professed
- authority on language fail to recognize such a frequently used acronym
- (and one that has been used more than once in this thread)?
-
- The Rhealist - nadeau@bnr.ca - Speaking only for myself
-