Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!pyrltd!root44!hrc63!pjmp From: pjmp@gec-rl-hrc.co.uk (Peter J M Polkinghorne) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: I have here.. Message-ID: <1990Nov15.090727.17259@gec-rl-hrc.co.uk> Date: 15 Nov 90 09:07:27 GMT References: <1990Nov13.181742.10791@odin.corp.sgi.com> Reply-To: pjmp@gec-rl-hrc.co.uk (Peter J M Polkinghorne) Organization: GEC Hirst Research Centre Lines: 13 In article <1990Nov13.181742.10791@odin.corp.sgi.com> archer@elysium.esd.sgi.com (Doctor Benway) writes: >*You can't expect such a diverse audience, here on the net, to all know a >*speech that was given before most of us were born. It is not stressed in >*school, like "four score and seven years ago..." Nor should it be, the >*general idea behind McCarthy's idiotic behavior should be looked at. > >The only excuse for not recognizing that speach is poor education. ^^^^^^ -------------- Well some people reading the news do not live in the USA and hence are not intimately familiar with ALL your history. Peter