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  2. From: jacobus@symphony.cc.purdue.edu (Bryan J. Maloney)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
  4. Subject: Gil and being bored.
  5. Message-ID: <C1FK8L.Lzv@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  6. Date: 25 Jan 93 22:09:56 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: mentor.C1FK8L.Lzv
  8. References: <1993Jan19.160218.22617@nas.nasa.gov> <727510995snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au> <C1FJ3F.DMF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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  10. Organization: Purdue University
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  15. Poor Gil, the most bored human on earth.
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  17. Or do I misunderstand?
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  19. Perhaps it is my European Royal Hegemonist bias which makes me unable to
  20. realize that what Gil means when the term "boring" comes so repeatedly out
  21. is not necessarily connected to ennui but is actually a superior way of saying
  22. "I don't want to bother with actually answering you, so I'll simply downgrade
  23. what you have to say with cheap rhetorical tricks."
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  26. Ah, but Gil, wise Gil, temperate Gil, Gil who holds the Key to Knowledge would
  27. never, ever stoop that low.
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  30. At least I'm entertained.
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