Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!hogpd!keduh From: keduh@hogpd.UUCP (D.HUDEK) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: RE: :-) ?? faggots, dykes, liberals Message-ID: <349@hogpd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Jul-84 13:26:36 EDT Article-I.D.: hogpd.349 Posted: Mon Jul 2 13:26:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 3-Jul-84 02:48:12 EDT Lines: 26 <<||>> Gee.... this group HAS been getting interesting lately. Good thing a friend told me to check into net.flame and see what's up. Anyway..... doesn't anyone else but me think this whole thing [the original article by harpo!jrl] was a put-on ?? He/she certainly did a good job of discrediting some "conservative" concerns [ welfare abuse, homosexuality, our system of justice, etc. ] by blowing them all out of proportion [ there's some latin phrase that goes here... reducto ad absurdum or something like that :-) ]. I dunno... I certainly got a good laugh out of the article until I saw that some people took him/her somewhat seriously. Maybe I'm wrong, but I quite simply cannot take the original article seriously ( and I seriously doubt that it was meant to be ). Anyways... I'd like to take up the opposite challenge and create a rather silly.... ----------------------------------------------------------------- :-) ANTI-CONSERVATIVE AND CLOTTING HEARTS FLAME :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- but unfortunately, I don't have the time. Anyone else like to give it a go ?? dave hudek {ihnp4! or pegasus!} hogpd!keduh