Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!wdl1!jrb From: jrb@wdl1.UUCP (John R Blaker) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Scattershot Message-ID: <164@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 03:00:43 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.164 Posted: Sun Feb 19 03:00:43 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 04:37:19 EST Lines: 63 SCATTERSHOT MK. III or, Here They Come With An Insultingly Thick Rope Yes, boys girls and bisexers, it's me, Evelyn, America's favorite modified dog, back with **STILL MORE** flames and opinions to enlighten the few and enrage the ignorant. ***(One more time) FFFLLLAAAAAAAAAMMMEEE OOONNN!!!*** 10. Re: Excelsior. WHO GIVES A F*CK??? 11. Re: Smoking. I am personally allergic to tobacco smoke, so my opinions are much more objective than those of a smoker. The City and County of San Francisco recently passed a surprisingly civilized law which in effect allows a single nonsmoker to force his will upon an entire office full of smokers. Since my health is adversely affected by having their smoke forced upon me; and since their health is not adversely affected by being forced not to smoke, this strikes me as being entirely reasonable. To use some legal terminology which has been misused rather freely on the net lately, breathing is a right; smoking a privilege. Privileges must give way to rights. I am in a job (marketing technical support for a former Bell operating company) which requires me to frequently (~2/wk) to go visit my employer's customers. As they ARE customers, I rarely ask them not to smoke in my presence (It's bad form), the exception being those few with whom I have long-standing rapport. When do nonsmokers become ridiculous? I'll give an example. I was standing on the corner of Market and New Montgomery (a **major** San Francisco business district intersection), and saw a nonsmoker ask a smoker, "Do you have to do that **HERE**?" Now, that's ridiculous. 12. Re: National Enquirer. Those who think it's bad haven't seen the San Francisco Chronicle. But in all seriousness, it is surpassed in ludicrosity by a rag called "The Weekly World News." Honorable mention goes to The Economist, whose current headline is: WELL, THERE GOES LEBANON... 13. Re: Superstition. I'm all for it. That's why I'm closing with exactly 13 flames. NOTE: Please send all responses on Net.Flame. If you send me personal mail I'll post it anyway with the header "CHICKENSH*T", because if your opinions are worth stating they're worth stating publicly. If you don't want everyone to know...I don't want to know. With much joy of the hunt, Evelyn (A Modified Dog)