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Subject: Re: ... (really, stupid f*ing asterisks!)
Message-ID: <483@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 23:30:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 23:30:13 1987
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Summary: * ***** ** **** **** ****.

In article <1657@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes:
> bsb@pyrman2.pyramid.com (Brian Brumfield) wrote: 
> ->	But then,  what is alt.flame for?  F*ck it!  You can't win.
> 
> ...
> This First-letter-asterisk-last-letter stuff for "nasty words" is just
> about the most ridiculous thing I've seen in alt.flame.  We all know

I agree.  Why did you do it?  Brian did the First-letter-asterisk-third-
letter-last-letter stuff.  Much more intriguing.  What makes you think
feck is a nasty word.  Although I will agree that this buisness of
using nouns as verbs is a nasty abuse of the language.

Then again, since * can match multiple characters, maybe he meant
frock it (the opposite of defrock?).

Or did he mean:
       fallback it
       fatback it
       feedback it
       fetlock it
       fiddleback it
       fiddlestick it
       finback it
       firebrick it
       firelock it
       fishstick it
       flareback it
       flashback it
       flick it
       flintlock it
       flock it
       flyspeck it
       footstock it
       foredeck it
       forelock it
       fullback it
       futtock it
?

But then, what is alt.flame for? Flapjack it! You can't win.

------- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)