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From: mckay@princeton.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: (about 3 levels of indirection) Boy, am I catching it....
Message-ID: <258@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Aug-83 02:12:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: princeto.258
Posted: Tue Aug  9 02:12:33 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Aug-83 19:21:56 EDT
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a quote of a quote:
               ... people who have had sexual relations with homosexuals 
                   (or the transitive closure of that relation)
         Since the transitive closure of this relation is probably the 
          population of the world.....

 
The second "Since..." quote (Mark Horton's) has met with apparent agreement.
(Authors, please forgive me if I am not quoting word for word, as it is from
memory.  I think others will get the gist.)  I know Mark did not literally
mean "the population of the world", and was probably using it as shorthand
for "a great majority of all people".  However, for those who might accept
the statement literally:

  Some of us ARE, believe it or not, old-fashioned (silly, sentimental, 
faithful, selfish,... fill in your favorite adjective) enough to be engaged
in relationships in which we both forego sexual relationships with anyone
else.  Still others of us are (insert previous or different adjective) 
enough to actually still be virgins.  To most of you this will seem trivial
and obvious, but for those to whom it is a revelation, I think it is 
important that it be explicitly stated once in a while.   In view of reactions
I've seen on the net, I think it's wise for  me to keep you guessing about
both my sexual preference and my virginal-or-not status.  Guess away!
 
                      Still standing up for
                      virgin and monogamous rights,
              
                             windy*
                             ...princeton!mckay