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>From: shanks@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Mark Shanks)
Subject: Bad Attitude 
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In article <1992Apr23.223457.11493@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>
>You see, Norm, I really don't give a fuck whether you, or anybody else,
>decide to patronize me or to belittle me; on the other hand, I happen to
>give a fuck when someone decides to fuck with them old Platonic Ideals, not
>to mention the people I happen to respect.  This here is a public medium,
>and you better get used to the fact that, for every nitwit diligently
>striving to turn it into an enormous international _sottisier_, there is
>bound to be someone like me,

i.e., another nitwit

>attempting to resist the tidal wave of complacent stupidity.

with his own tidal wave of bombastic pomposity.

Mark Shanks
Principal Engineer, 777 Displays


