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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Apology for EXPO posting.
Message-ID: <334@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 14:30:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.334
Posted: Tue Jul 29 14:30:42 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Aug-86 00:45:45 EDT
References: <225@mdivax1.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <225@mdivax1.UUCP> nelson@mdivax1.UUCP (nelson) writes:
>PS. Do come and visit EXPO 86. It's crowded but then so is Disneyland.

Right on!

  Come and visit EXPO 86!
  Spend massively on three days of decadence while people on welfare
    fish pop cans out of garbage bins outside the fairgrounds!
  Support the self-publicity campaign of the most socially insensitive
    government this side of Maggie Thatcher (i.e. the so-called "Social
    Credit" provincial government of Bill Bennett)!
  Support the provincial government that has presided over massive
    spending cuts and enrolment drops at universities, and then
    appointed one of its publicity men to a post at UBC!
  Support the provincial government which made huge spending cuts in
    social services and then gave free handouts to foreign coal interests!
  Support the only provincial government which still sells South
    African wines in its liquor stores!
  Support a political party which has absolutely no political
    philosophy except to get re-elected and keep out the "socialists"
    (a political party approximately equivalent to the SDP in Britain)!

  Above all, come and wait in hour-long lineups to get into the good-
    quality exhibits and then get so p***ed off that you go into the
    other pavilions and see some kind of 8mm travelogue and get the local
    wares of the country pushed on you and then get ripped off for food
    at one of the several Macdonalds that form the main form of nutrition
    at the fairgrounds, and then go home without seeing any more of 
    the rest of Vancouver, the rest of British Columbia, or the rest of
    Canada!

I know about that last bit only second-hand, of course.  I'm boycotting it.

--Jamie.
...!seismo!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!andrews
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