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From: mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: People not remembering history (was Re: I have here..
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Date: 2 Nov 90 17:40:27 GMT
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jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) wrote:
} It seems that many people who read this newsgroup have forgotten an
} important part of our history: Joe "Tailgunner" McCarthy.  Anyone
} who did not understand my post should go to their local library and
} look up some articles/books on the man, and then you might get the
} joke.

I think I'm reasonably intelligent, educated and informed and I didn't
make the connection at all.  I know about the McCarthy era, but wasn't
familiar with exact exposition until you tied it together.  I knew it
was a joke, Eric, from the context.  Perhaps a collaborateur might have
been in order who could have posted some kind of reference so we could 
go dig into our history books and appreciate the irony.
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