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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Susan smears Holtsinger unjustly
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.202533.7964@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 20:25:33 GMT
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- In article <1219@blue.cis.pitt.edu> sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.192416.5661@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >#In article <1217@blue.cis.pitt.edu> sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >##In article <nyikos.725573716@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >##[everything but the following sentence deleted]
- >###That was an attempt by Holtsinger to quote Humphrey, to illustrate what
- >###racist tendencies this redneck has.
- >##
- >##For ten points, spot the racial slur in the above quote. For
- >##10,000 points, guess what basis PHoney is using to assign a
- >##race to Patrick.
- >##
- >#Let me guess... "Redneck" would be the racial slur, would it not? And,
- >#like so much else, PHoney is assigning a race to Patrick based on....
- >#his own fantasies.
- >#Who'sz the scorekeeper?
- >
- >Now, there's a problem. It's easy to give you the 10 points, but
- >how do we decide who gets the big bonus? Most creative or most
- >likely to be correct?
- >
- >If we use the latter criterion, I'd say you've won already.
- >
- How about avoiding the conflict and giving the bonus points to one of
- each? I don't mind splitting the bonus with whoever wins for most
- creative, or just give duplicate awards. :)
-
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