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Re: Effect the Election

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From: Ryan Thompson
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 02:22
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In article <8ud1di$pf$1@news-int.gatech.edu>, Ze Ninguem wrote:

>> ballot, then you deserve to have your vote screwed up. (And the Democratic
>> party deserves you :)
>
>Nice little editorial on the end there, Ryan.  

Thanks, I stole it from the great Boortz. He used it to describe a caller
who just told him that he preferred Social Security to investing the money
himself because the money was already taken out and he "didn't have to
think about it."

>Actually, "Effect the Election" is a perfectly valid phrase; I just
>don't think it means what D'Andries thinks it does.  

Unless it's a proper noun, it's a verb. "Effect the Election" sounds like
a really bad children's story. :)

 -R
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From: news@flamtap.org (Ryan Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Effect the Election
Date: 9 Nov 2000 02:22:42 GMT
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