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From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: mr. insensitive speaks out
Message-ID: <247@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 16:42:33 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 20 16:42:33 1985
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From: sequent!nsc!chuqui@DECWRL.ARPA (Chuqui Q. Koala)
>>It's not that we don't want people to be suportive and understanding
>>with you, Jeff; we just want you to do it *somewhere else*.
>>-- 
>>Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam
>
>I should point out that Gordon used the wrong pronoun. 'We' should have
>been 'I'. You may be a lot of things, Gordon, but fortunately you aren't
>two of them. 

No, he can't speak for the whole group, but he can use the plural.

>I hope that all of you who have been so quick to condemn Jeff have
>friends just as supportive to you as you are to Jeff the next time you need
>some friendly advice.

If what he wanted was friendly advice, there wouldn't be a problem.
Unfortunately, what he seems to want is a chance to say, "I have more
problems than any of you and I need to complain about them, but I'll ignore
all your advice because nothing can help me."  Multiple times.  Between that 
and his insistence that religion is the answer for everyone except himself, 
I think we (Gordon, me, and anyone else who wants to be considered in the
"we") can justifiably get annoyed.

							-Dragon
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