From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 18:48:42 MST
> <alexboko@umich.edu>
>
> >I hereby pledge not to use any of the following words for a month*:
> > bush, iraq, saddam, hussein, bin laden, osama, liberal,
> conservative,
> > right-wing, left-wing, leftist, libertarian (oww! I'll miss
> that one),
> > tax, taxpayer, or tax dollars
>
John Clark wrote:
> Now why would you want to do that? It seems to me that if
> anthrax bombs
> start going off many may not be much interested in long
> dissertations about
> brains the size of Jupiter or the ultimate fate of the
> universe. It might
> even strike some as, if not vacuous, at least escapist and untimely.
Many may indeed feel the way that you describe. That's why they aren't on
the extropian list. It's that easy.
Emlyn
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