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From: dianeh@gryphon.COM (Diane Holt)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Lakers are heaven's gift to basketball????
Message-ID: <24989@gryphon.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 90 16:05:53 GMT
References: <130297@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1857@cbnewsk.ATT.COM> <1990Jan16.215907.29720@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <6460@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In the referenced article g3q@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin J Podsiadlik) writes:
>But the fact is, when you attack the fans of a sports franchise, you attack
>them all PERSONALLY.

Uh-huh ... I see ... uh, because?...

>This is especially true when you limit the group to the tiny minority that
>have net access.

Bingo.

>And since the net is primarily linked to colleges and other science-based
>groups, you are most probably attacking some of the smartest people in the
>country.

True, true.  So smart are these people, in fact, that they feel PERSONALLY
attacked when someone says "their" basketball team sucks, or "their" music
bites it big-time, or when anyone says anything negative at all about any
of "their" stuff.

"We are *not* insecure whiners!  Are not. Are not. ... Mommmmmmmmmm! They made
 fun of my basketball teeeeeeeeeam..."

<a-aha-ahahaha-ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaooooooooooooo-ahahahahahahahaha>

>We aren't all MENSA members, [...]

Duh.

>[...] but we know an insult when we read one.

I sure as fuck hope so.

Diane Holt
(dianeh@binky.UUCP)

"Fool."
   --Clay Bond