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Re: Effect the Election

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From: Ze Ninguem
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 02:26
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In git.announce Ryan Thompson <news@flamtap.org> wrote:
> 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."

Social Security is good for those people who don't know how to save
money.  Assuming, of course, there's any left when they're eligible.  ;)

>>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. 

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say here.  Effect can be
either a noun or a verb, but usually not a proper noun.

> "Effect the Election" sounds like
> a really bad children's story. :)

Um, what??

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From: Ze Ninguem <solomon@angband.org>
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Subject: Re: Effect the Election
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