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Re: Chipper Speaks

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From: Dan Hartung
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:00
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"Tom Malone" <tfmalone@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:FHW05.1290$AZ3.7195@news2.mco...
>
> Dan Hartung <dhartung@wwa.com> wrote in message
> news:RYV05.1074$vP1.36656@ord-read.news.verio.net...
> > "yert" <yertbarNOyeSPAM@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
> > news:0b1a3314.586fd07e@usw-ex0101-007.remarq.com...
> > >"USA! USA! USA!"
> >
> > And then he fell off the top of the Olympic stadium, drunk with
> > patriotism.
> >
> >
> >
> watched by Dan Hartung, who, under the mistaken belief that
negativism
> suggests critical thinking, smiled smugly, and lived happily ever
after in
> his dimensionless universe, much like a cow gazing at the world
through the
> pasture fence.

While Tom Malone, who attributes both "negativism" and "living happily
ever after" to be essentially identical states of mind, smokes like a
Star Trek computer at the logical impossibility.

I want to change things because I'm optimistic. That hardly suggests
either negativism OR acting like a herd animal. The ones who are
cheering the status quo are the cows. Moo, Mr. Malone?
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From: "Dan Hartung" <dhartung@wwa.com>
Subject: Re: Chipper Speaks
Date: 2000/06/12
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