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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Chuq's April Fooler
Message-ID: <28105@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 89 18:26:37 GMT
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> What made Chuq's 'guidelines' such effective satire is what's
> also frightening/depressing about it:  the fact that his
> style, while meant satirically, is *exactly* the way the
> politicians of the two tax-subsidized parties speak.

Don't thank me. While I'd *love* to claim the idea for my own, I was just
borrowing a little from my good friend George Orwell. Once I made the
connections there (freedom through regulation, a classic doublespeak) the
rest, as they say, was obvious. At least to me.




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