Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site houca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!drutx!houxe!hogpc!houca!victorf From: victorf@houca.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Geez people! Message-ID: <459@houca.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 14:18:19 EDT Article-I.D.: houca.459 Posted: Mon Aug 20 14:18:19 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 00:26:16 EDT References: <1575@zehntel.UUCP>, <801@ihuxn.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel NJ Lines: 25 Come on people! Sometimes I have a hard time believing that all the people on the net are adults. I've swallowed hard and not replied in the past, but this garbage about his joke before his radio broadcast has broken the proverbial camel's back. People, people, people. What is going on in your brains that you can't see a joke for what it is? Reagan was about to go national radio, there were technicians and so forth around and he cracked a little joke. So what? Would there have been such an uproar if his statement hadn't made it on the air? I doubt it. Does anybody believe that Reagan was serious about what he said? Does anyone believe that he would have even said this out loud if he was serious? For those people that answered yes to these questions, do you believe in the Easter Rabbit? Last semester at school we coined a new word, "offensensitivity." It means "an extreme lower threshold at what offends a person." It seems that this problem is rampant on the net, or maybe only these people post articles. For the record, I'm not a big fan of Reagan's. I am very unhappy with the amount of money he spends on defense. In all likelihood I'll vote for Mondale. My Democratic alignment however does not me foolish enough to believe that Reagan wants kill hundreds of millions of people in the Soviet Union. Geez!! Scott Thompson (houca!hoqax!rst)