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From: GMP@psuvm.BITNET
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: re: keyboard envy
Message-ID: <2179GMP@psuvm>
Date: Sat, 31-Aug-85 14:01:24 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 31 14:01:24 1985
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     I sent an answer to a flame, flamingly, and I got anonymous mail back
of a most bigoted nature attacking my advanced age.  I think it is very sad
that young people try to take revenge in linguistic brutality and anonymity.
I feel that in order to equalize the battle, young people should understand the
prime directive that AGE AND GUILE WILL DEFEAT YOUTH AND ENTHUSIASM EVERY TIME.
Murphy knew this and that s how he got to be so powerful.  Seriously folks,
people who want to vent their spleen should sign their names.  They would have
to if they had a surgeon vent their spleen. On the other hand, spleen venting
went out with leeches.  Mrs Leech did not care for this and got a court order.
She will use the court tomorrow if she can get Mackenroe off.  So geht es leben
The preceding was in a foreign tongue.  If you can identify the tongue you win
the pickle and the pumpernickle, only with inflation it is now a pumperquarter.
Yours in discombobulation.  The old sage of the Nittany Valley.  gmp at psuvm.