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From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Mr. Sykora isn't civil?  Mr. Reagan isn't honest?
Message-ID: <641@digi-g.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 14:01:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 14:01:23 1985
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Summary: 

[My reply to Sykora about the difference between hurting someone & not helping]
>>Hurting someone: a criminal
>>    Not helping: a creep
>
>How much do I have to help people so that I'm not a creep?  Why?
>
>						Mike Sykora

"17.4 Quaatlues / fortnight"

"Because"

The above answers contain as much sense as most of Sykora's postings,
which seem to be of the form:

quote ::= '>' lettertext;
query ::= "How come?" | "Why is this?" | "Who says?" | "Why not?" ad nauseum;

quote
query

...with no vestige of argument in between.  The Lou Costello of the net.

Merlyn Leroy
Lou: "The left fielder's name?"
Bud: "Why!"
Lou: "Because!"
Bud: "Oh, he's center field"