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Re: Thanksgiving.....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Nov 13 01:49:06 2000
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To: Elcid Vergara <evergara@fas.harvard.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:52:10 EST."
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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 01:48:59 -0500
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
[bcc'd to aui, so other people don't bother to respond.]
You sent mail to aui@mit.edu, a mailing list for the Athena User
Interface project. This was probably an error on your part. As the
mailing list has several subscribers, you should probably not send
mail there.
Thanks,
tibbetts
On 11/13 you wrote:
> My hardy comrades,
>
> As you know, a great American tradition is fastly approaching. This is the
> uniquely hypocritical tradition: Thanksgiving. Celebrate the anniversary of
> the pilgrim's landing at Plymouth Rock. They were a hardy band of
> adventurers and god fearing human beings. Blessed by divine providence and
> the amity of their neigboring native American tribes, they were able to
> survive the first winter. For this, we give thanks as the foundation of the
> new world was laid. Afterwards, they proceeded, with equal zeal and
> enthusiasm, to annihilate all the native tribes and take over the new
> continent, giving rise to the most powerful nation whose protective (or
> rather, interfering) arms reached out into all corners of the world.
> Indeed, we should give thanks. I mean, hey, their election is bungling, and
> the political system is highly divided as of now. This is good news,
> perhaps, we can invade them sometimes.....mwahahahahaha
>
> In anycase what i am trying to say is that we should have a cooking party
> (or, rather, for me dish washing party) on thanksgiving day. I talked to P
> Heart (or Art, not so sure) who is a grad student in history at harvard,
> and he agrees to provide us with the necessary space and kitchen and
> utensils. What i want to know now is how many people will be interested and
> can come. I am just afraid that if there are too many people we should find
> somewhere else and not bother P heart. Pls reply and ple tell the people i
> miss from this e-mail about this thing.
>
> So long amigo,
>
> Elcid
>
>
>
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