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"Bryan" wrote
I choose to see language like winter break and happy holidays as a positive effort to include all religions and non-religions [and rec.travel.cruises]. An object creates the meaning of a word. Changing the word does not change the object. You can't include everybody. You shouldn't even try. Diversity means everyone's different and allowed to be that way. Inclusion and conformity would have everyone shouting "Happy Holidays" and waving their Visa cards on cue. I wish to be who I am and not have my beliefs thrust into some uniform mold to increase retail sales. Happy Holidays to all and Merry Christmas to my fellow Christians. Bah, Humbug! -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics. Remove spaces etc. to reply: n o lindan at net com dot com psst.. want to buy an f-stop timer? nolindan.com/da/fstop/ |
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Diane James ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ . wrote: Would you ****heads stop crossposting to rec.travel.cruises? Gee, *that's* a sure-fire way to get people to comply with your request: insult them and call them names. Geoff -- "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." -- Ann Coulter |
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John Woodgate wrote:
I read in sci.electronics.design that wrote (in .com) about 'Christmas vs "Holidays"', on Sat, 18 Dec 2004: Not sure what you mean he sorry. Perhaps I should explain what I meant? I know what you meant; I was applying 'relentless logic'. Well, don't do it in bar or someone may do something relentless to your ass. All the best, Roger Pearse |
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geoffm posted:
Diane James wrote: Would you ****heads stop crossposting to rec.travel.cruises? Gee, *that's* a sure-fire way to get people to comply with your request: insult them and call them names. -- Looks like a clear case of "When on a techie board, post as the techies do." |
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:54:40 -0500, Diane James wrote:
Would you ****heads stop crossposting to rec.travel.cruises? Nah. ****heads never do what you ask them to do. ;-) Cheers! Rich |
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:45:54 -0500, Diane James wrote:
Would you ****heads stop crossposting to rec.travel.cruises? I noticed you dropped RTC and *added* rec.travel.europe, top-posting dickhead. I posted this back there just for you. -- Keith ================ "keith" wrote in message news On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:48:42 +0000, Rich Grise wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 06:47:03 +0000, John Woodgate wrote: I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Grise wrote (in ) about 'Christmas vs "Holidays"', on Sat, 18 Dec 2004: Has anyone ever determined exactly how a common housefly lands on a ceiling? Does he do a loop-the-loop, or a barrel roll? A barrel-roll, IIRC. This was discovered about 20 years ago, I think. Thanks for this. Somehow, I had got the weird idea that they reach up above their head with their front feet, grab the ceiling, and just sort of swing their butt up like some kind of Olympic athlete on the uneven bars doing a loop-de-loop or something. So, are there clockwise-rolling flies and counterclockwise-rolling flies, like there are right-handed and left-handed people? (and practically everything else, for that matter, even Moties?) In the northern hemisphere they roll counter-clockwise. ...just like they go down the toilet. Coriolis force, ya know. ;-) -- Keith |
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:45:54 -0500, Diane James wrote:
Would you ****heads stop crossposting to rec.travel.cruises? I noticed you dropped RTC and *added* rec.travel.europe, top-posting dickhead. I posted this back there just for you. -- Keith ================ "keith" wrote in message news On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:48:42 +0000, Rich Grise wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 06:47:03 +0000, John Woodgate wrote: I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Grise wrote (in ) about 'Christmas vs "Holidays"', on Sat, 18 Dec 2004: Has anyone ever determined exactly how a common housefly lands on a ceiling? Does he do a loop-the-loop, or a barrel roll? A barrel-roll, IIRC. This was discovered about 20 years ago, I think. Thanks for this. Somehow, I had got the weird idea that they reach up above their head with their front feet, grab the ceiling, and just sort of swing their butt up like some kind of Olympic athlete on the uneven bars doing a loop-de-loop or something. So, are there clockwise-rolling flies and counterclockwise-rolling flies, like there are right-handed and left-handed people? (and practically everything else, for that matter, even Moties?) In the northern hemisphere they roll counter-clockwise. ...just like they go down the toilet. Coriolis force, ya know. ;-) -- Keith |
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:35:05 +0000, Bryan wrote:
wrote: People always adopt local traditions, holidays and pagents as their own. Get over it and enjoy the holidays So, how come the salvation army bell ringers are not ringing the bell at Target stores and the local post office this year? . How will we give to the poor if nobody is ringing the bell? -Bill There are hundreds of ways to give to the poor without handing pocket change to bell ringers. Personally, the bell ringers didn't bother me, but the stores can't say no to the krishnas and yes to the bell ringers. Why not? It's their property. rec.trave.cruises left in to **** off dickhead Diane -- Keith |
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:35:05 +0000, Bryan wrote:
wrote: People always adopt local traditions, holidays and pagents as their own. Get over it and enjoy the holidays So, how come the salvation army bell ringers are not ringing the bell at Target stores and the local post office this year? . How will we give to the poor if nobody is ringing the bell? -Bill There are hundreds of ways to give to the poor without handing pocket change to bell ringers. Personally, the bell ringers didn't bother me, but the stores can't say no to the krishnas and yes to the bell ringers. Why not? It's their property. rec.trave.cruises left in to **** off dickhead Diane -- Keith |
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:36:34 +0000, Paul Burke wrote:
jsmith wrote: The secularists have been chipping away at the word Christmas for a number of years now and are substituting irrelevant (religious ??) concoctions to diminish the value of the celebration of the birth of Christ. Keep your sticky fingers off our Yule. We (humans) were celebrating the Winter Solstice thousands of years before you traduced the teachings of Bar Yussuf. Traduce? Is that like promulgate? Thanks, Rich |
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