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- From: d_headl@pavo.concordia.ca (DAMOCLES)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.rap,rec.pets.dogs
- Subject: NOT!
- Message-ID: <26JAN199313442406@pavo.concordia.ca>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:44:00 GMT
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- From: pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (fun fun fun boy)
- >>>Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.pets.dogs,alt.rap
- Subject: Re: NOT!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan15.003157.8552@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 15 Jan 93 00:31:57 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.005423.25995@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan14.103843.4765@verifone.com>
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- >In article <1993Jan14.103843.4765@verifone.com> rachim_t1@verifone.com writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan8.005423.25995@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, carasso@Turing.ORG (Roger Carasso) writes:
- >>>
- >>> John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie died yesterday in New Jersy from
- >>> pancreatic cancer. He was 75 years old. He contributed mightly to
- >>> the modern music scene. Many of us will miss him.
- >>
- >>What the fuck is the 'NOT?' for, asshole?
- t.b.>
- t.b.>hi. it seems you are a bit confused if not brain damaged. it was shure
- ^
- t.b.>nice of you post to our little froup here (t.b.).
-
- D: We are not in _your *little*_ group (talk.bizarre). We are in one of the
- D: groups that the original post was cross-posted to (alt.rap). Let me propose
- D: that you do what you suggest below and then check the header.
-
- t.b.>..................................................if you would have taken
- t.b.>a moment to pull your puny head out of your rectum for five minutes last
- t.b.>year you might have noticed the popularity of a certain phrase. you see,
- t.b.>when someone follows up a positive statement with a negation what they
- t.b.>mean is that the positive statement is not something that they in
- t.b.>actuallity believe or support.
-
- D: Perhaps the person took offense to the negation because we are in a group
- D: that might have people who appreciated Dizzy and his contributions to
- D: music.
-
- t.b.>................................for more info on this you might find the.
- t.b.>New York Times Magazine where William Saffire examines this in his column
- D: ^ --> Good, you have finally found the shift key.
-
- t.b.>On Language. please refrain from calling people you don't know 'asshole'
- t.b.>and using profane language here. we do not find it amusing, nor bizarre.
- t.b.>
- t.b.>oh, i almost forgot, kindly Fuck Off(tm).
- t.b.>--
- t.b.> PJF--->Biochem. grad student
- t.b.> PUBLIC ENEMY #1
-
- D: Check the facts!!
- D: Think! It ain't illegal yet!!!!
-