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Re: Bitchiness (or kill file hall of fame)

From: caen!bsbbs!nrc@harvard.harvard.edu (N. Richard Caldwell)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 12:30:36 -0800
Subject: Re: Bitchiness (or kill file hall of fame)
To: love-hounds@wiretap.spies.com
Organization: The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198)

brownfld@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Kenneth R Brownfield) writes:

>      As an analogy, imagine someone burping constantly during a speech.  It's
> no harder to understand what they're saying inbetween belches, but it casts
> that much of a pallor over what they say.  The speaker has to be aware of
> the pallor, and make the decision whether or not to consider controlling the
> belches or not, or the speaker's intent will be uncontrollably changed.  It
> is entirely the speaker's right to burp or not, I am merely mentioning the
> pallor.

If I didn't know better I'd say it sounds like Ken as actually spoken
with Cynthia in person!  >uuurp<


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