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I realize that everyone is entitled to his opinion, and I respect this. I also hope that you will all respect mine as you read this letter. For the sake of review, Mississippi seeks scapegoats for its own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target it can find, that is, unregenerate, beer-guzzling pinheads. I know that I'm emotional now, but it may seem difficult at first to embrace diversity. It is. But Mississippi finds enemies everywhere. Of that I am certain, because I, not being one of the many grotty nonentities of this world, like to speak of Mississippi as "caustic". That's a reasonable term to use, I claim, but let's now try to understand it a little better. For starters, not only does it force us to do things or take stands against our will, but it then commands its flunkies, "Go, and do thou likewise."

The next time someone says that escapism is the only alternative to narcissism, look that person right in the eye and reply, "One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is sexism." It makes perfect sense that Mississippi doesn't want me to recall the ideals of compassion, nonviolence, community, and cooperation. And let us not forget that it has been a bad apple for as long as I can remember. And here, I maintain, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in its methods of interpretation. As part of its efforts to gain a mainstream following, Mississippi publishes the Journal of Hotheaded Ethnocentrism. Included alongside articles discussing history, culture, art, religion, and philosophy are endorsements of Mississippi's plans to establish tacit boundaries and ground rules for the permissible spectrum of opinion. I believe, way deep down, that no matter how bad you think Mississippi's holier-than-thou attitudes are, I assure you that they are far, far worse than you think.

While perhaps offensive to some readers, only a direct quote can fully convey the unprincipled nature and content of Mississippi's ballyhoos: "Attention, yes-men! Your orders are to ruin my entire day, and to do so at any cost." What Mississippi doesn't realize is that if it can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that it's okay for it to indulge its every whim and lust without regard for anyone else or for society as a whole, I will personally deliver its Nobel Prize for Debauched Rhetoric. In the meantime, I don't want to build castles in the air. I don't want to plan things that I can't yet implement. But I do want to chastise Mississippi for not doing any research before spouting off, because doing so clearly demonstrates how it and its spin doctors are, by nature, sophomoric yahoos. Not only can that nature not be changed by window-dressing or persiflage, but someone has to be willing to build a society in which people have a sense of permanence and stability, not chaos and uncertainty. Even if it's not polite to do so. Even if it hurts a lot of people's feelings. Even if everyone else is pretending that the cure for evil is more evil.

It will be objected, to be sure, that Mississippi doesn't honestly want to lead an active disinformation campaign. At first glance, this may seem to be true, but when you think about it further, you'll indubitably conclude that many people respond to its blathering expedients in much the same way that they respond to television dramas. They watch them; they talk about them; but they feel no overwhelming compulsion to do anything about them. That's why I insist we challenge it to defend its solutions or else to change them. Sullen parasitism is a disgrace to humanity, but it cannot be eliminated by moral lectures or by pious intentions. No, it can be eradicated only if we give the needy a helping hand, as opposed to an elbow in the face. I'm not saying this to be obnoxious, but rather to explain that it's contentious for Mississippi to distract attention from more important issues. Or perhaps I should say, it's malignant. Mississippi can't control its desire to have everything it wants and to have it now. I mean, think about it.

I want my life to count. I want to be part of something significant and lasting. I want to lead Mississippi out of a dream world and back to hard reality.

Although Mississippi's overt racialism has declined, a covert form still survives and may be an important factor in fueling a tendency and/or desire to destroy the natural beauty of our parks and forests. I will not quibble with Mississippi as to whether or not we must do away with the misconception that the purpose of life is self-gratification. Instead, I'll simply state that I'm sure Mississippi seriously believes that there is an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids, seeing how its selective memory works, and leave it at that. I suppose it's predictable, though terribly sad, that superstitious, biased fence-sitters with stronger voices than minds would revert to soulless behavior. But Mississippi wants nothing less than to foster suspicion -- if not hatred -- of "outsiders". Its forces then wonder, "What's wrong with that?" Well, there's not much to be done with deplorable, hateful fast-buck artists who can't figure out what's wrong with that, but the rest of us can plainly see that it's easy to tell if Mississippi is lying. If its lips are moving, it's lying. Furthermore, Mississippi is a fearful organization hiding behind a facade of cool. Am I aware of how Mississippi will react when it reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because if it gets its way, I might very well lose heart.

An inner voice tells me that I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why Stalinism is Mississippi's main weapon and its chief means of convincing its sycophants to pooh-pooh the concerns of others. My peers think that I refuse to dance to Mississippi's sordid tune. While this is certainly true, I contend we must add that Mississippi's hatchet jobs are based on hate. Hate, solipsism, and an intolerance of another viewpoint, another way of life. We must put our religious and factional differences aside if we are ever to remind Mississippi about the concept of truth in advertising. I wish I could put it more delicately, but that would miss the point.

Verily, Mississippi has -- not once, but several times -- been able to cater to the basest instincts of judgmental, loathsome opportunists without anyone stopping it. How long can that go on? As long as its avaricious **** -and-bull stories are kept on life support. That's why we have to pull the plug on them and put to rest unctuous and surly conjectures such as Mississippi's. Nobody wants Mississippi to inaugurate an era of macabre Comstockism, but Mississippi insists on doing it anyway.

Before you declare me evil, let me assert that when I was younger, I wanted to reinforce notions of positive self esteem. I still want to do that, but now I realize that if the only way to condemn its hypocrisy is for me to burst into tears, then so be it. It would sincerely be worth it, because I appreciate feedback and other people's views on subjects. I don't, however, appreciate feedback when it's given in an unprofessional manner. Mississippi's idiotic claim that all it takes to solve our social woes are shotgun marriages, heavy-handed divorce laws, and a return to some mythical 1950s Shangri-la is just that, an idiotic claim. What do you think of this: Mississippi often flirts with ageism? Mississippi's hypocrisy is transparent. Even the least discerning among us can see right through it. I am reminded of the quote, "It is like a parrot that makes noises for attention without any kind of clue as to what it is saying." This comment is not as prodigal as it seems, because the egotism "debate" is not a debate. It is a harangue, a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, shiftless attack on progressive ideas. Mississippi wants to promote racial superiority doctrines, ethnic persecution, imperialist expansion, and genocide. Personally, I don't want that. Personally, I prefer freedom. If you also prefer freedom, then you should be working with me to break the spell of great expectations that now binds uppity anarchists to Mississippi.

I claim that the falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that you, of course, now need some hard evidence that before the year is over, its ideologies will degenerate into hotbeds of rumor and innuendo. Well, how about this for evidence: It is not uncommon for Mississippi to victimize the innocent, penalize the victim for making any effort to defend himself, and then paint the whole ultra-lethargic affair as some great benefit to humanity. Mississippi contends that its opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality. Sounds rather sappy, doesn't it? Well, that's Mississippi for you. Mississippi wants its cowardice and irresponsibility to be regarded as prudence. That is why, come what may, we must expose Mississippi's perversions for what they really are.
09-12-2002 05:54 AM
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Furthermore,
Over the past few weeks, I've learned to look past Mississippi's laughable opinions. I've learned to look past some of the semi-intelligible things Mississippi has said. I've even learned to look past its attempts to endorse a complete system of leadership by mobocracy. But I cannot stay silent about Mississippi's incomprehensible and unforgivable audacity regarding a specific event that recently occurred. You see, I doubtlessly believe that this letter should be regarded as the beginning, not the end, of my stance against Mississippi. And because of that belief, I'm going to throw politeness and inoffensiveness to the winds. In this letter, I'm going to be as rude and crude as I know how, to reinforce the point that Mississippi's "compromises" are not our only concern. To state the matter in a few words, as our society continues to unravel, more and more people will be grasping for straws, grasping for something to hold onto, grasping for something that promises to give them the sense of security and certainty that they so desperately need. These are the classes of people Mississippi preys upon. I just want to say that Mississippi commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. It then ensures that these people stay in those positions, because that makes it easy for Mississippi to convert our children to cultural zombies in a mass of unthinking and easily herded proletarian cattle.

I am not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that Mississippi claims that skin color means more than skill and gender is more impressive than genius. Well, I beg to differ. Maybe Mississippi has a reason for acting the way it does, but I doubt it. Mississippi's unsavory off-the-cuff comments are in full flower, and their poisonous petals of nonrepresentationalism are blooming all around us. I didn't want to talk about this. I really didn't. But there are a number of conceptual, logical, and methodological flaws in Mississippi's litanies. But it goes further than that; Mississippi believes that it is merely trying to make this world a better place in which to live. Sorry, but I have to call foul on that one. Mississippi's excuses turn the stomachs of those who know even a little about the real world. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true.

What Mississippi doesn't realize is that if, five years ago, I had described an organization like Mississippi to you and told you that in five years, it'd prey on people's fear of political and economic instability, you'd have thought me soulless. You'd have laughed at me and told me it couldn't happen. So it is useful now to note that, first, it has happened and, second, to try to understand how it happened and how we mustn't let it undermine the intellectual purpose of higher education. That would be like letting the Mafia serve as a new national police force in Italy. Mississippi has stated that black is white and night is day. One clear inference from that statement -- an inference that is never really disavowed -- is that it is a paragon of morality and wisdom. Now that's just harebrained.

Believe me, I certainly don't want to give Mississippi a chance to implement a birdbrained parody of justice called "Mississippi-ism". Need I point out that it is almost funny (but is actually rather scary) to see how far Mississippi will go to abridge our basic civil liberties? If I didn't sincerely believe that words cannot convey the hurt and despair that I and so many others feel for those who were personally attacked by Mississippi, then I wouldn't be writing this letter. Mississippi's perceptions are so piteous that if allowed to go unanswered, their final cost would be incalculable. Mississippi is so intolerantly devoted to its own prejudices that its perception of reality is thoroughly warped. To top that off, there is a simple answer to the question of what to do about Mississippi's complaints. The difficult part is in implementing the answer. The answer is that we must study the problem and recommend corrective action. Mississippi and its adherents are apolaustic, clumsy warmongers. This is not set down in complaint against them, but merely as analysis.

Unless doing the fashionable thing is more important than life or liberty, it is simply wrong to conclude that Mississippi's practices enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness. So let me make it clear that Mississippi's teachings are a house of mirrors. How are we to find the opening that leads to freedom? There is widespread agreement in asking that question, but there is great disagreement in answering it. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to expose Mississippi's sentiments for what they really are. And just let it try and stop me.

Last summer, I attempted what I knew would be a hopeless task. I tried to convince Mississippi that its positions have no credibility. As I expected, Mississippi was utterly unconvinced.

Should this be discussed in school? You bet. That's the function of education: To teach students how to open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. By the same token, two wrongs don't make a right. Period, finis, and Q.E.D. One can examine this from another angle, and plainly see that Mississippi likes to compare its intimations to those that shaped this nation. The comparison, however, doesn't hold up beyond some uselessly broad, superficial similarities that are so vague and pointless, it's not even worth summarizing them. Mississippi has commented that the federal government should take more and more of our hard-earned money and more and more of our hard-won rights. I would love to refute that, but there seems to be no need, seeing as its comment is lacking in common sense.

Moreover, even when the facts don't fit, Mississippi sometimes tries to use them anyway. It still maintains, for instance, that people are pawns to be used and manipulated. I don't just maintain that by letting Mississippi limit the terms of debate by declaring certain subjects beyond discussion, we are playing a loser's game; I can back that up with facts. For instance, it has never satisfactorily proved its assertion that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable. It has merely justified that assertion with the phrase, "Because I said so."

If you've read any of the superstitious, ridiculous slop that Mississippi has concocted, you'll truly recall Mississippi's description of its plan to make higher education accessible only to those in the higher echelons of society. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that Mississippi's objectives are an icon for the deterioration of the city, for its slow slide into crime, malaise, and filth. Mississippi's epigrams have merged with sectarianism in several interesting ways. Both spring from the same kind of reality-denying mentality. Both rob, steal, cheat, and murder. And both boss others around. I, not being one of the many militant airheads of this world, have a New Year's resolution for Mississippi: It should pick up a book before it jumps to the flighty conclusion that the only way to expand one's mind is with drugs -- or maybe even chocolate. Does Mississippi remember the hurt and hate in the eyes of the people it made fun of just so others would like it more? Even if it does, I'm sure it doesn't care, because Mississippi's faculty for deception is so far above anyone else's, it really must be considered different in kind as well as in degree.

I feel that writing this letter is like celestial navigation. Before directional instruments were invented, sailors navigated the seas by fixing their compass on the North Star. But we must present a noble vision of who we were, who we are, and who we can potentially be. If we fail in this, we are not failing someone else; we are not disrupting some interest separate from ourselves. Rather, it is we who suffer when we neglect to observe that Mississippi's satraps have learned their scripts well, and the rhetoric comes gushing forth with little provocation. Mississippi does not merely foster pessimism at every opportunity. It does so consciously, deliberately, willfully, and methodically. An armed revolt against Mississippi is morally justified. However, I feel that it is not yet strategically justified. One final point: Mississippi is an organization of questionable moral character.
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Those were extraordinary posts, my good man. I haven't the first notion of what you were complaining about. They very much remind me of certain pro se pleading I have the misfortune to have to read fromtime to time. Your posts certainly demonstrate that you have visited a dictionary, but they do not demonstrate that you have the first idea of what the words there you found are supposed to do.

Do yourself a favor. Don't demonstrate again that you are only semi-literate. As for any "ideas" hidden amid and behind your sentences (that's what words are for, my good man -- to convey ideas), as best as I can see they amount only to a few, a very few, off-the- shelf insults about Mississippi. What particularly has gotten beneath your saddle is a mystery though. It is a very good idea to find out what you are wanting to say before you write.

While I nearly always enjoy the spectacle of the illiterate attempting to mimic the ignorant, this is a football board my good fellow. Not the place for it, you understand?
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You have just fallen victim to the <a href="http://www.ncaabbs.com/~nctrafficman/complaint.html" target="_blank">NCAAbbs.com Complaint Letter Generator</a> <img border="0" alt="[Cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/cheers.gif" /> I just could not resist this Morning! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="smile.gif" /> Have a Great Day!
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BTW: I am never that verbose! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
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Administrator or not, bite me! This has become my home state and those of us who live in and love Mississippi will not tolerate it. You get the picture? Watch it or we will own you just like we have all other idiots in forums past.

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Folks, he was joking. He filled in 3 blanks and it spat all that out.

It is to be taken lightly.

Sorry for any anger this caused.
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<img border="0" alt="[laugh]" title="" src="graemlins/laughing.gif" />

That's funny! I linked the generator on another board. Maybe that will draw some more posters.

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I was beginning to think we had another JesusChristOperaDawg on our hands. . .but then, it hit me. There's no WAY this guy could be this serious about such a patently absurd proposition.

Funny as HELL, my good man, even if we were the butts of that joke. Thanks for the LINK, dude!

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My complaint about Prof. JesusChirst O Dawg, Esq.

My goal for this letter is to tell Prof. JesusChirst O Dawg, Esq. where he can stick it. I shall do this in the only honest way that I can, which is by simply setting forth those principles that I personally believe in and that I personally observe and honor. Wait! Before you dismiss me as morally questionable, hear me out. While pathetic, unbalanced nutcases claim to defend traditional values, they actually authorize, promote, celebrate, and legitimize counter-productive heathenism. He is differentiated from your average morally crippled, untrustworthy stool pigeons by virtue of the fact that he wants to engender ill will. He wants to grant ostentatious ideologues the keys to the kingdom. Such intolerance is felt by all people, from every background.

Given what I know about illaudable prima donnas, I can say with confidence that even if one is opposed to superficial mercantalism (and I am), then surely, I didn't want to talk about this. I really didn't. But Prof. Dawg wants us to believe that we can solve all of our problems by giving him lots of money. We might as well toss that money down a well, because we'll never see it again. What we will see, however, is that the despotism "debate" is not a debate. It is a harangue, a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, nettlesome attack on progressive ideas. Of course, in a discussion of this type, one should unequivocally mention that Prof. Dawg spouts the same bile in everything he writes, making only slight modifications to suit the issue at hand. The issue he's excited about this week is fanaticism, which says to me that he is absolutely determined to believe that it is impudent to question his op-ed pieces, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. I'm sure you get my point here. The implications of surly cynicism may seem theoretical, but they have concrete meaning for thousands of people.

If you want to hide something from Prof. Dawg, you just have to put it in a book. He parrots whatever ideas are fashionable at the moment. When the fashions change, his ideas will change instantly, like a weathercock. Prof. Dawg's sermons are rife with contradictions and difficulties; they're completely blockish, meet no objective criteria, and are unsuited for a supposedly educated population. And as if that weren't enough, I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people. I can therefore assure you that most pundits are uncertain about the magnitude of the threat posed by Prof. Dawg's m****cripts. For proof of this fact, I must point out that far too many people tolerate Prof. Dawg's complaints as long as they're presented in small, seemingly harmless doses. What these people fail to realize, however, is that in Prof. Dawg's offhand remarks, authoritarianism is witting and unremitting, uncompromising and insufferable. He revels in it, rolls in it, and uses it to excoriate attempts to bring questions of misoneism into the (essentially apolitical) realm of pedagogy in language and writing. It's my hunch that Prof. Dawg ignores the most basic ground rule of debate. In case you're not familiar with it, that rule is: attack the idea, not the person. For those who need very specific examples in order to grasp the significance of his convictions, I'll give a very specific example: Think for a moment about the way that I do not have the time, in one sitting, to go into the long answer as to why time has only reinforced that conviction. But the short answer is that he has commented that anyone who dares to make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of his hatchet jobs can expect to suffer hair loss and tooth decay as a result. I would love to refute that, but there seems to be no need, seeing as his comment is lacking in common sense.

Prof. Dawg claims that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive. I claim that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that we must learn to celebrate our diversity, not because it is the politically correct thing to do, but because he is not only immoral, but amoral. All this aside, Prof. Dawg's collaborators consider his bromides a breath of fresh air. I, however, find them more like the fetid odor of voyeurism. In effect, if you look back over some of my older letters, you'll see that I predicted that Prof. Dawg would deny citizens the ability to become informed about the destruction that he is capable of. And, as I predicted, he did. But you know, that was not a difficult prediction to make. Anyone who has bothered to learn even a little about Prof. Dawg could have made the same prediction. I feel that writing this letter is like celestial navigation. Before directional instruments were invented, sailors navigated the seas by fixing their compass on the North Star. But I want nothing more -- or less -- than to shed the light of truth on the evil that is Prof. Dawg. To that task I have consecrated my life, and I invite you to do likewise.

Do you really think he will ever learn from his mistakes? Prof. Dawg claims that some people deserve to feel safe while others do not. Well, I beg to differ.

Once, just once, I'd like to see his henchmen anneal discourse with honesty, clear thinking, and a sense of moral good. But until they do that (if they ever do that), we must realize that some noisome propagandists actually suspect that he has been robbed of all he does not possess. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his deeds. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as brainless ingrates.

I use such language purposefully -- and somewhat sardonically -- to illustrate how Prof. Dawg has been trying for some time to convince people that my bitterness at him is merely the latent projection of libidinal energy stemming from self-induced anguish. Don't believe his hype! Prof. Dawg has just been offering that line as a means to tap into the national resurgence of overt solecism. While this country still has far to go before people are truly judged on the content of their character, there are two related questions in this matter. The first is to what extent he has tried to overthrow democratic political systems. The other is whether or not by refusing to act, by refusing to enable adversaries to meet each other and establish direct personal bonds which contradict the stereotypes they rely upon to power their subversive vaporings, we are giving Prof. Dawg the power to violate his pledge not to denigrate and discard all of Western culture.

His diatribes are popular among self-satisfied scoundrels, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to accept them. Prof. Dawg uses deception to trick people into voting against things that they, in fact, support. If you doubt this, just ask around. The picture I am presenting need not be confined to his publications. It applies to everything Prof. Dawg says and does. Most of you reading this letter have your hearts in the right place. Now follow your hearts with actions.

Individually, Prof. Dawg's comments break down traditional values. But linked together, Prof. Dawg's half-measures could easily evade responsibility. Prof. Dawg seems incapable of understanding that it is immature and stupid of him to alter laws, language, and customs in the service of regulating social relations. It would be mature and intelligent, however, to champion the force of goodness against the greed of uncontrollable, putrid self-proclaimed arbiters of taste and standards, and that's why I say that when you tell Prof. Dawg's hired goons that Prof. Dawg's obiter dicta often lash audiences of prurient flakes into wild storms of applause, they begin to get fidgety, and their eyes begin to wander. They really don't care. They have no interest in hearing that he decries or dismisses capitalism, technology, industrialization, and systems of government borne of Enlightenment ideas about the dignity and freedom of human beings. These are the things that Prof. Dawg fears, because they are wedded to individual initiative and responsibility. I'll give you an example of this, based on my own experience. As you know, Prof. Dawg tries to make us think the way he wants us to think, not by showing us evidence and reasoning with us, but by understanding how to push our emotional buttons. His theories have kept us separated for too long from the love, contributions, and challenges of our brothers and sisters in this wonderful adventure we share together -- life!

Faced by such despicable perfidy and the frustration of not being able to respond to the same audiences as Prof. Dawg has had, I must truly operate on today's real -- not tomorrow's ideal -- political terrain. And let me tell you, Prof. Dawg has stated that he could do a gentler and fairer job of running the world than anyone else. One clear inference from that statement -- an inference that is never really disavowed -- is that he is a paragon of morality and wisdom. Now that's just confused. Some people think it's a bit extreme of me to lend support to the thesis that his anecdotes are decidedly uncalled for -- a bit over the top, perhaps. Well, what I ought to remind such people is that Prof. Dawg's argument that his decisions are based on reason is hopelessly flawed and entirely circuitous. When I say that we must continue to monitor Prof. Dawg's acolytes and expose them as the eccentric extortionists they are, this does not, I repeat, does not mean that it is better that a hundred thousand people should perish than that he should be even slightly inconvenienced. This is a common fallacy held by mischievous fault-finders. The bottom line is that I have put this letter before you, without any gain to myself, because I care.

THANX, NCTM, YOU JUST MADE MY DAY! LOL
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<img border="0" alt="[laugh]" title="" src="graemlins/laughing.gif" /> All those words and he said absolutely nothing... You wasted all that typing and time for nothing...Dude
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No, it's called "copy, and then paste". It's that simple! Takes five seconds. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="cool.gif" />
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You mean there was somebody that actually said stuff like that on another board?

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HA! DID he? And HOW!!!!

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Posted: July 12 2002,9:32

Apparently, words like "uneducated and
09-12-2002 02:03 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by georgia_tech_swagger:
Folks, he was joking. He filled in 3 blanks and it spat all that out.

It is to be taken lightly.

Sorry for any anger this caused.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Okay, well sorry I missed it then. I'm in a bad mood as it is today. Cheers!

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09-12-2002 02:37 PM
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roger that wiz, I was getting my fingertips ready to do some serious bashing myself. lol, thanks, I needed the adrenaline this morning.
09-12-2002 05:27 PM
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While I was wading through all that, I kept asking myself, "What the hell got all this started and what is he talking about?" <img border="0" alt="[Saber]" title="" src="graemlins/saber.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" title="" src="graemlins/banghead.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/cheers.gif" />

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09-13-2002 08:17 AM
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What is so funny about this is that after reading all that crap. I printed it out so that on the way to a meeting I could try decipher what he was talking about. Perfect waste of my time. <img border="0" alt="[Cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/cheers.gif" />
09-13-2002 11:12 AM
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I hear ya on the "waste of time", especially, since it was all a joke - at least I take it from some of the other posts, that it is a practical joke. Either way, I don't know what prompted this or what he was getting at in the first place.
09-13-2002 12:44 PM
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