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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!tillage!gil
- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Jared Diamond's _The Third Chimpanzee_
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <727679400snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <C17GqJ.FnK@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 05:10:00 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <C17GqJ.FnK@brunel.ac.uk> mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk writes:
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- > In article <727510995snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au> gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil
- > Hardwick) writes:
- > >
- > >BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING!
- > >
- > Hi Gil, I see the tranquillisers are working.
- >
- > When my sister didn't like what I was saying, she used to stick her fingers
- > her ears while shouting 'boring boring ...' etc. I used to try to point
- > out that sticking your fingers in your ears is quite enough. You don't
- > have to shout as well.
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- Ah, two of us now. I wonder how many more will be so inflicted?
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- Sticking fingers in my ears are for *my* benefit. The shouting is for
- *your* benefit that you will know why I have my fingers in my ears.
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- > Have you thought of using a kill file?
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- Kill files are more boring than ever. Interesting that it is the most
- boring people who keep suggesting them as a solution to their patent
- inability to post anything interesting or informative.
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- Gil
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