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traditional values

#1147
From: Adrian Kent
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1986 03:07
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In article <418@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes:
>This girl goes into a bank, fills out a deposit form, goes up to the
>teller, says she wants to deposit a fifty-dollar bill.  The teller
>takes the bill, looks at it, holds it up to the light, finally says,
>"I'm sorry, ma'am, but I can't accept this bill.  It's counterfeit."
>"Oh my God!" says the girl, "I've been raped!"
>-- 
>				Peace and Good!,
>				      Fr. John Woolley
   To set this lovely piece of sexist propaganda in context, look at an
earlier article:

In article <358@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes:
> In article <862@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes:
>>You can get away with this sort of disingenuous appeal to traditional values
>>in a conversation, but one of the advantages of the net is that we can sit
>>back and analyze your fallacies at our own pace, rather than in real time.
 
> Nicely put.  But I don't think "disingenuous" is correct.  I was being very
> open about my traditional values, not trying to be false or cunning or
> deceptive at all.

I think your candor regarding your traditional values is now beyond dispute.
Just two questions:
(1) Do you understand that many of your readers are women, or like women, or 
both, and for that reason regard those values with contempt?
(2) What was the first article doing in net.jokes? 
                                                   ak 

"Salome, dear, NOT in the fridge."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!oddjob!apak
From: apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.women
Subject: traditional values
Message-ID: <1124@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 22:07:08 EST
Article-I.D.: oddjob.1124
Posted: Mon Jan 20 22:07:08 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jan-86 04:21:36 EST
References: <263@galbp.UUCP> <418@cisden.UUCP>
Reply-To: apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent)
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Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Keywords: death, doom, destruction, despair, despond, dereliction.