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From: anand@utastro.UUCP (Anand Sivaramakrishnan)
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Subject: Wimps & six-packs
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 13:57:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 13:57:17 1985
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I hate to sound like a wimp, but it takes some courage
to do so, especially after seeing some of the flames!

Don Seeley has a very strong point in his recent
article on the six pack as a unit of distance. 

Some of the articles on this topic (especially
the flames directed at wimps like Don Seeley and
me from 'get-off-our-case'ers) suggest that Don
Seeley's posting be uncomfortably close to the bone
for some netters.

I'm shocked at the attitude in the US towards
drunk driving. I am glad to see that even people
brought up in this atmosphere (of mixing alcohol
and internal combustion on the roads) feel the
same sense of shock. 

Talking in such a light-hearted way about six-packs
as a unit of distance is a bit like talking about
bullets as a method of taking a census of Jews, at
least to me (or Bangladeshis or Ugandans or some group
that has been a victim of genocide). " I never meant
that one shoots every person in the census! "...
Would you belive that claim?