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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: They say we're moving ahead!
Message-ID: <610@opus.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Jul-84 01:36:05 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 22 01:36:05 1984
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>     Officials want to close Gerry Clevenger's hot dog stand because they say
>she's simply too pretty to work on a street corner where she could cause an
>accident by distracting passing male motorists.
>...
>     Tarantino said lawmakers in the Gloucester County township were first
>told that Clevenger might pose a danger by Butch D'Alessandro, who owns
>Butch's Little Ponderosa across the street from Clevenger's stand.

(...and some of the pieces I cut out are worse than what's here...)

It would be interesting (though unfortunately not very rewarding) if
Clevenger could counter-complain against D'Alessandro - that he's simply
"too handsome" to work on a street corner, blah, blah...  (Of course, maybe
he's not all that handsome - but that's hardly the point anyway!)

On the one hand, it would be sort of stooping to the same techniques as her
opponent, who would seem from the story not to be a particularly savory
character.  On the other hand, it might be quite satisfying to point out
the idiocy of the whole situation, and - who knows - embarrass the
lawmakers into behaving semi-rationally, or at least bouncing them out on
the next election.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...I'm not cynical - just experienced.