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rsvp@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (R. Scott V. Paterson) writes:

| In article <7623@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) writes:

| >Shallow thinking then..... if you've never stubbed your toe then said
| >'shit', then I'd suppose you were either anally retentive or your 'mom
| >brought you up right'.

| That reasoning is laughable.  When you swear after stubbing your tow,
| it is not because you thought to, it is a pure unthinking reaction.

| I think the same applies to the original posting.  Obviously very little
| forethought.

My reasoning is far from laughable... My point was precisely that the
original post "was a pure unthinking reaction"... exactly as you
surmise in your second para.

Perhaps _you_ should be thinking more before you hit 'R'.

nrg

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