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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: Are Queens Bitchier, Really?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.065515.23863@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1993Jan26.200906.23519@spdcc.com> <1993Jan27.155759.27905@spdcc.com> <1993Jan27.224643.10527@osf.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:55:15 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1993Jan27.224643.10527@osf.org> coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren) writes:
- >While not necessarily disagreeing with what follows, I have to ask:
- >don't nobody around here know how to read?
-
- Seems not.
-
- >I assume the lack of parallelism between Richard's adjectives and
- >Steve's is deliberate. Steve's remark makes much more sense if you
- >note that he carefully does not deny that Clay could be hateful.
-
- Thank you.
-
- >And, for the most part, I'd rather read Bond than Melmon anytime. This
- >doesn't say much about what I think of them as people, since I've
- >never met either of them.
-
- As long as we're deconstructing Melmon, it's that he's almost always
- maladroit. Some of you seem to think that his attacks against Jess
- and/or Arne were terribly funny, but they struck me as simply ham-fisted
- examples of how to miss the mark entirely, which is why I find him tedious.
-
- >For the record: Matthew's comments about people getting what they
- >deserve (you all know what I'm talking about) were, indeed, hateful,
- >vulgar, stupid, and thoroughly offensive.
-
- Oh, my. You didn't think he was being _funny_? Strirring the pot, as it were?
- Where's your sense of humor?
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
-