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Travis Roy
travis at scootz.net
Mon Oct 18 17:21:01 EDT 2004
I'm voting for Nader, so I could care less :)
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 16:52, Travis Roy wrote:
>
>>I thought people on this list could have a sense of humor.
>
>
> My general view is that they do have a sense of humor. However, with
> something that's such a polarizing issue, and in particular one that not
> only is completely unrelated to the purpose of the list, and has
> previously led to *far* *far* too long of borderline flame war threads,
> it seems to me that it's a topic that is best left out. In humor form
> or otherwise.
>
> Just for example, I had to very much resist (as a liberal leftist)
> posting a "comeback" joke in response to Bill's first posting. The
> problem is that the joke I sent would probably have generated replies in
> of itself, as well as encouraged other folks to send their own
> "comebacks" and whatnot to the original posting. I stopped myself just
> before hitting the "Send" button.
>
> If people in general disagree, by all means let me know. I'm happy to
> post all the anti-republican/Bush propaganda .... er .... jokes I
> receive. 8)
>
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