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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Maria Montez vs Burl Ives, or Lighten Up a Little, Folks
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 22:09:12 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Lines: 48
- Message-ID: <1hm5m8INNfja@mizar.usc.edu>
- References: <mattm-271292142120@mcmelmon.apple.com> <1hlktjINNdfc@mizar.usc.edu> <72490@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <72490@cup.portal.com>
- Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
- > Adolphson whines:
-
- No, I wasn't "whining".
-
- *X* wrote:
- > >> It seems I can provoke you even easier than hairless twinks can
- > >> provoke that GDM fellow.
-
- I responded:
- > >Yeah, well, I take this stuff as seriously as that humorless
- > >fellow from Glendale takes hair and cigars.
- >
- > Hm. I'm "humorless" for responding to what I find important,
- > but *you* are just being a good net.citizen for Pointing Out
- > The Truth when it's something *you* find important.
-
- Heavens, George, I can laugh about the stuff I find important,
- provided that any criticism is based on fact. If I were to
- call Burl Ives a "hairless twink" -- the exact analogue of
- *X*'s error wrt standards of female beauty from the '30s
- through the early '60s -- I'd expect a million flames from
- ursinophiles. I express my tastes and talk about my interests,
- and I'm willing to argue about them (into the ground), but it's
- always with a sense of humor *except* for those times when
- someone is *way* off base when it comes to the facts.
-
- > Quelle Self-Centered Shithead.
- >
- > But we knew that already, of course.
-
- <Snore>
-
- > () We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone
- > () else is politics.
- > () -- Hubert H. Humphrey
-
- () When I see myself on the screen, I look so beautiful I want
- () to scream with joy.
- () -- Maria Montez
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- Arne
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