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New quotes for Mon Nov 4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Mon Nov 4 01:35:06 1991
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 91 01:34:27 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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alitass (Mohammad Ali Tassoudji):
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chbarry (Charles H. Barry):
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dom (Dominic J Sartorio):
Dom logged out at Sun Nov 3 22:39:09 EST 1991.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
However much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood!
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
LOVE'S RECOVERY
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Indigo Girls
During the time of which I speak it was hard to turn the other cheek
To the blows of insecurity
Feeling the cancer of my intellect the blood of love soon neglected
Lay dying in the strength of its impurity
Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
They've all gone and left each other in search of fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery.
There I am in younger days, star gazing,
Painting picture perfect maps of how my life and love would be
Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection
My compass, faith in love's perfection
I missed ten million miles of road i should have seen
Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
Left each other one by one in search of fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery.
Rain soaked and voice choked like silent screaming in a dream
I search for our absolute distinction
Not content to bow and bend
To the whims of culture that swoop like vultures
Eating us away, eating us away
Eating us away to our extinction
Oh how I wish I were a trinity, so if I lost a part of me
I'd still have two of the same to live
But nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal, as specks of dust we're universal
To let this love survive would be the greatest gift that we could give
Tell all the friends who think they're so together
That these are ghosts and mirages, these thoughts of fairer weather
Though it's storming out I feel safe within the arms of love's discovery
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jinx (Guillermo J Rozas):
I hardly ever use this account.
Do "finger -l jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu" for more up to date information.
Written on Sun Nov 3 07:00:03 EST 1991
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
That's
the only song you know
it's boring and it's slow
we really wish you'd go
--to the tune of "Tribute to Troy", used to taunt the University of
Spoiled Children marching band while your football team pummels their team.
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koolkin (Laurence F. Koolkin):
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sethf (Seth Finkelstein):
MIKE ROYKO
Bill Bradley, the thoughtful senator from New Jersey, believes
Americans should be more open and honest about their racial fears and
hostilities.
As he put it: ``The more Americans are honest about the level of
distrust they hold for each other, the easier it will be to get beyond
those feelings.''
This shows Bradley recognizes one of America's more serious problems.
It also shows that Bradley, who grew up in comfort, was a Rhodes Scholar
and played pro basketball, may have led a sheltered life.
I don't know where he's been the last half-century, but everywhere
I've been Americans have been been very open and honest about their
feelings for each other. If they were any more open, we'd have round-
the-clock rioting in the streets.
Growing up in a typical Chicago neighborhood, I assumed everyone in
America was either a hebe, a dumb polack, a coon, a dago, a kraut or a
spic.
Later, I learned that in more refined suburban communities, people
didn't use such crude terms. At least not until they putted out on the
18th green and got into the locker room.
When, as a young man, I spent a year or so in the Deep South, I
discovered that Southerners and Chicagoans weren't really that different
in their bigotries. The only difference was that Southerners thought
every Northerner was crud, too.
If Bradley wants openness, I will be glad to share my mail and some
of my phone conversations with him. Especially the communications I've
had lately, thanks to the sudden fame and popularity of David Duke, the
former Klansman and Nazi who is a rising star in Southern and Republican
politics.
Did I say Southern and Republican politics? No, that isn't accurate.
Duke's popularity crosses party and geographic boundaries. He has
admirers everywhere that think Abraham Lincoln got carried away with the
emancipation thing.
And they're not at all shy about expressing their views on America's
socioeconomic problems.
For example, a gent down in Memphis dropped me a note saying: ``You
give me a pain in my you know what. David Duke is the white's last hope.
Him and the young college men that say, `We are sick of the crap we have
to take from the blacks.'
``Most blacks are immoral and they have an illegitimate kid every
year. They don't know who the fathers are and couldn't care less, just
so they get their welfare and food stamps and most buy crack and starve
their kids.
``It is the black heritage. They come from violent people. The head
hunters, cannibals, savages and the Mau Mau tribes.
``Three cheers for Duke who is trying to clean up this mess.''
How's that for openness? And for social concern? He is confident that
with the election of David Duke, Louisiana will experience a sharp drop
in head hunting and cannibalism.
And there was the man who phoned from New Orleans just to say: ``Why
don't you liberal Jews mind your own business about our politics?''
I told him I was not Jewish, but wasn't offended.
``Well, with that long beak of yours, you look like a Jew,'' he said,
``and whatever you are, when Duke is elected, we're gonna take care of
bastards like you.''
Once again, refreshing openness and frankness in political discourse.
And it is something to think about. If Duke does rise to power, anyone
who has a prominent nose -- or ``heroic,'' as Cyrano described his own --
might consider having it reduced in size. Some of Duke's followers seem
to have a thing about nose size. One of them has been calling almost
every day and screaming about long noses. I wonder what Freud, with his
phallic theories, would make of that?
And there's the nice lady named Belle, who writes from Alexandria,
La.:
``What has Duke done wrong? I can't remember any American being
treated the way he is. I don't care for Nazis, but I don't think his
ideas are more damaging than the crime and ignorance that we already
have.
``The Democratic candidate has blacks eating out of the palm of his
hand with favors like getting their kids out of prison charges and
pardoning criminals. What are we supposed to do? Vote for someone like
him?''
That is a tough choice. But maybe the Democrat will promise to let
some white criminals out of prison, too.
Thanks to Duke, my Hate-O-Meter, which measures the intensity of
America's snarl, has been jumping higher than at any time since the
civil rights marches and mayhem in the 1960s.
And, as Bradley says, that might be good. If nothing else, it lets
people blow off steam. Of course, when guys drive their trucks into
restaurants and shoot up a dozen or so customers, that's letting off
steam, too.
So if anyone out there -- black, white, or whatever your tint -- wishes
to be open and honest about your level of distrust for each other, just
drop me a line and I'll pass it along to Sen. Bradley. Maybe he can find
a way of bringing us all together.
If he does, I'd like to have a piece of the emergency room
concession.
(C) 1991 BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.
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sniyogi (Sourabh Niyogi):
A Clockwork Orange:
The adventures of a young lad whose favourite activities are rape,
ultra-violence, and Beethoven.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
I SENSE...GOLDEN ARCHES...
In Original D&D, some swords had the ability to "detect meal and
what kind."
from Murphy's Rules
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therese (Therese):
You're looking at my plan? :) I'm honored :)
Will you zwrite me too?
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wslee (Whay Sing Lee):
Move on, move on, never look back. That is the way of life.
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Address: Box 52, 3 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Tel: (617)225-6211 (H) (617)253-6048 (W)
Alternate e-mail address : wslee@ai.mit.edu
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