RE: Fighting Terrorism (was Being Extropic)

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 23:15:36 MDT

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    Hubert writes

    > Lee gave one more example of his power of imagination:
    >
    > > By the way, speaking of terrorism, let's all practice
    > > what we will say the day that the first terrorist nuke
    > > goes off in the U.S., probably in 2005:
    > >
    > > Hubert: Man's inhumanity to man reaches unacceptable
    > > heights---but the Americans did ask for it.
    >
    > Not too bad an interpretation of what I might feel then, maybe with the
    > extension:
    > ". . .But now let's forget all the quarrels and ideological gulfs and get
    > our asses over there to help"

    I knew it. You see, I really do have everyone pegged---
    especially if I can just get the hang of Australian slang.

    > Paul Grant / Brett Paatsch (on page 2385 of their mutually written manifesto
    > that is published only three months after the event, they say): "Before we
    > get into the details of the DNA strand of terrorist no.13., let us swiftly
    > repeat the implications of the insights from chapter 134 until chapter 256
    > of this little paper..."

    Yes. I was going to add a prediction for Brett
    (his impression following the atomic bombing of
    an American city) that would consist of him studying
    for several hours yet further international law,
    historical precedent, and the Geneva accords, and
    finally concluding that the Americans had every
    right to strike back. But I like your parody of
    the Paatch/Grant dialog better.

    By the way, did you see that our prolific friend has
    just cracked the 100K barrier?

    Break out the champagne for Brett Paatsch, everyone!

    I knew that someday someone would post 100 kilobytes
    of composed dialog! ("To thine own self be true",
    today, at about eleven o'clock this morning.)

    Lee



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