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Re: Should the Florida legislature appoint electors?

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From: flaccid erudition
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 00:00
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Complicated Man <Tbone@pimpdaddy.com> wrote:

>gw@cs.uchicago.edu writes:
>>adam.kippes@pobox.com writes:
>>>Barry Shein wrote:
>>>
>>>> A carpetbagger is a derogatory term referring to northeners who were
>>>> sent down south in the aftermath of the Civil War to fill various
>>>> ministerial and bureaucratic positions. It was a bitter symbol of the
>>>> south's defeat.
>>>
>>>Get a dictionary and use it.
>>
>>I totally called it.
>
>Good for you. Now let's not waste more time over the supremely vacuous
>idiot, "Adam Kippes". Remember, Kippes rhymes with Wix. He is clearly
>some variety of old-growth deadwood who has been conducting prolonged
>zero-content threads for many years in some group. Let us sympathize
>with that group and move on.

It is not, however, a misspelling of the French word for oak tree.
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From: moacir@zuikis.uchicago.edu (flaccid erudition)
Subject: Re: Should the Florida legislature appoint electors?
Date: 2000/11/27
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