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- From: clavazzi@nyx.cs.du.edu (The_Doge
- Subject: Youthful folly! (was:Re: CLINTON CORUPTS BUSH ......)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.021859.17429@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Keywords: Clinton has endorsed genocide, he is the Anti-Christ
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- References: <kkelly.10.0@TC1.ccs.ryerson.ca> <1993Jan25.205825.13772@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <bob1.728068860@cos>
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- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 02:18:59 GMT
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- In article <bob1.728068860@cos> bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
- >In <1993Jan25.205825.13772@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> clavazzi@nyx.cs.du.edu (The_Doge) writes:
- >
- >>In article <kkelly.10.0@TC1.ccs.ryerson.ca> kkelly@TC1.ccs.ryerson.ca (Kevin Kelly) writes:
- [deleted: Young Simon's "accidental" forgery and attack on same]
- >> True, of course, but one must make allowances for the boy's youth. It
- >>is not uncommon for children in their late teens to honestly believe that they
- >>have already acquired all the world's wisdom and most of its knowledge. When
- >>(or if) they mature emotionally and intellectually, they often come to regret
- >>the silly things they said or did during their youth. Such is life.
- >
- >There used to be a saying that went; 'When I was 16 I thought my father
- >was pretty stupid, by the time I reached 21, I was amazed at how much
- >he had learned'. :-)
- >
- >Think about it.
- >
- Don't need to; I darned near quoted it myself but couldn't find either
- the exact quote or the source. It's often attributed to Mark Twain but I'll
- be darned if I can find the reference.
- BTW, I removed young Simon's inclusion of misc.test in the "Newsgroups"
- line. As the old Grouch has probably noticed by now, this is the Usenet
- equivalent of the joy buzzer or dribble glass. It also suggests that the kid
- isn't as net.ignorant as he pretends to be.
-
- The_Doge
- ObQuote: "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie
- is that a cat has only nine lives."
- -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ch. 7
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