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Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column

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From: John Starr
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00
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In dc.general moonman3@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> John Starr wrote:
> > This is the second instance I've noticed recently in which nationally
> > renowned U.S. newspapers have started feature columns with what can only
> > be described as enthusiastic bemusement.
>
> God forbid the newspapers should provide a little levity! . . .

You appear to have misunderstood what was written, as is further evidenced 
by the rest of your top-of-the-head, interlinear cynicisms, omitted here
except for this howler: 

> . . .the Post has enough dinosours [sic] to make even you
> happy...Bozell, Novak, Buchanan, to name a few.

Who???  Bozell?  Buchanan?  No such columnists ever appear in the 
Washington Post.  

Who's the "dinosour" now? 



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From: apollo@tomco.net (John Starr)
Subject: Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column
Date: 1997/06/12
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