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>> And with William O. Douglas.  But not with the other eight Old Men on that
>> bench.
>								 ^^^
>
>Oh, my God, Sandra Day O'Connor retired and I never heard about it! :-)
>
>					Evelyn C. Leeper
>The future exists first in the imagination, then in the will, then in reality.

Either you are making fun of your opponent when he satirizes himself (which
seems like an awful self-defeating thing to do) or you really DON'T know
what the phrase ``Nine Old Men'' refers to.

FDR, as part of his New Deal, pushed through a bunch of reforms that were
declared unconstitutional.  Today, I don't think that they'd raise any
eyebrows, but then they were hopelessly radical and the rather staid court
knocked them down.  Anyhow, FDR and his supporters grumbled about the ``Nine
Old Men'' and tried to pack the bench (increasing the number of Justices).  It
didn't work; it seemed like anytime someone was appointed, he'd change his
views to those prevailing beforehand.

If you can suggest a pithy phrase to replace the Nine Old Men, I'll be happy
to use it the next time I fell inclined to satirize my own position.

Now what was that about our school systems not doing their job? B^{

On another topic, I apologize for misspelling ``orgasms'' a couple of times.
It's a word that I don't type that often and my fingers haven't learned it
yet. (Is a smiley appropriate there ...)  while, continue, for, int, struct,
my fingers are pretty good at.  They're also beginning to get the hang of
``pornography'' after a few early typos.  And I'm not making any promises about
``honorificalitudinibus''!  Besides, Evelyn, I thought that you were above
such things as spelling flames.
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