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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: "I don't care who this offends!!"
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 10:50:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 10:50:32 1984
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>From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
>Newsgroups: net.flame
>Date: Sat, 7-Jul-84 19:58:28 EDT
>
>I was about ask the writer of this tirade how he had formed such a dismal
>opinion of the average person.  Then I looked at the header of the article
>and discovered that he lived in Georgia.
>
>				Keeping things toasty,
>				Kenneth Almquist
>

Now hold on there, Ken!  I'll admit that the University of Georgia is
located in this fair state.  I'll freely admit that UGA (University of
Georgia at Athens -- the site from which the original article came) has
more than its share of...shall we say...unfortunates.  (As a
parenthetical note {note the parentheses}, the vast majority of Georgia
politicians are graduates of UGA. I think that explains a great deal.
You might also note that if you were to ask people at UGA about some
of the things they are noted for, they would probably point out former
students like Herschel what's-his-name who couldn't even finish a 4
year degree program.  For them, that's someone they can view with great
pride -- at least he got a job. However, that's hardly something to
recommend a university.)

I must strongly object to your blanket aspersions upon the literacy and
character of Georgians in general.  The majority of us do not go around
barefoot all the time and keep chickens in the house.  That's the folks
in Alabama.  Nor are we totally bereft of fine educational institutions
-- Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology being sterling
examples of such bastions of knowledge.  Georgia may not be perfect in
every respect, but it certainly is nothing to disparage (with the
possible exception of UGA), especially by someone living in New
Jersey.

I think we can deal with this like civilized men.  However, if you
persist in such generalized slander, I will be forced to summon Billy
Joe Bob and the boys, stuff 'em full of grits, pack them in the pickup
truck, and send 'em up North to whack you upside yo head with a tire
iron, ya hear?  Either that, or send you a case of Billy Beer, COD.

Yours for better interstate relations,
-- 
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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