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From: mark@elsie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Some Thoughts on Super Bowl XVIII - (:->)
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 09:05:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 09:05:21 1984
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Excuse me if my letter style seems cramped, it's tough writing while sitting
under my desk.

A little while ago I responded to "Some Thoughts About the Super Bowl" with
some thought of my own. Some people have taken offense.

Pardon me a minute while I close the window, the mortar shells are getting a
little close.

I said two things which seem to have raised hackles:
1.) "..they are Old," -- A bad choice of words here, I stand corrected.
    They aren't that old; they just looked old coming off the line against
    the Raiders. Or maybe the Raiders were just fast.

Good Lord! somebody just let snakes and spiders loose under my door.

2.) "... and DC is not a good town for football support -- too much else
    to do here." -- I had meant this as a complement to the DC area, not as
    an insult to Redskin Fans. Washington D.C. is a BEAUTIFUL city, there's
    is as much to do around here as in Southern California, even more since
    so few people seem to take advantage of it (I am talking here of outdoor
    activates; I lived 12 years in SoCa, I know). The Redskins do have a
    large number of very loyal fans, as I have found out.

    [Is that smoke I smell, or tear gas?]

    The sun will and did rise after Less-Than-Super-Sunday, as opposed to
    some places I've been in (WHOS NAMES I WILL NOT MENTION) when *the team*
    lost the *big* one.

Now, to all of you who have threatened me with bodily harm, sent letter
bombs to me, my wife and child, tried to get me fired, called me at 3am,
stuck pins in dolls that bore my likeness (ouch), or otherwise dumped abuse
upon me: Peace.

Otherwise, well, my family is living in another state under assumed names,
I'm barricaded in the office with my desk facing my booby-trapped door,
machine gun in hand, and my computer programmed to cause every cpu in the
world to panic trap -- head crash if my heart stops beating.

Good Grief! That cobra has rabies!!!

-- 
Mark J. Miller
NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC
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