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Re: Chipper Speaks

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From: Tom Malone
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:00
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Dan Hartung <dhartung@wwa.com> wrote in message
news:ca615.1091$vP1.37876@ord-read.news.verio.net...
> "Tom Malone" <tfmalone@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:FHW05.1290$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?
>
>
Well, I'm pleased that you cleared this up.  But why are you mooing at me?

Goodbye, optimistic cow.  You're not a worthy opponent.

Tom Malone
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From: "Tom Malone" <tmalone@domisysinc.com>
Subject: Re: Chipper Speaks
Date: 2000/06/12
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