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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:30:37 EST
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- From: ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- Posted on 22 Dec 1992 at 16:26:11 by Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)
- >: "conquered," words like fuck, and shit, and cunt, are now becoming
- >: commonplace, but let anyone express religious sentiments in an everyday
- >: context, and this new puritanism shows its head. It's rather amusing.
- >
- >Provided a *man* does not use two of those three words to express
- >some literal meaning. If he does, he runs the risk of a sexual
- >harassment trial.
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- I don't think it has to be just a literal meaning, Steve, I think these
- words have to be directed to the person in question.
-
- I hope some woman some time, Steve, never raises her eyes above your
- crotch, the way that some men never raise their eyes above a woman's
- chest. These are the guys I would like to make a stop at PMS Sporting
- Goods, Guns and Ammo, for.
-
- Karen
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