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   A BOATSWAIN to Joe Fineman   
   Re: While we're being rude...   
   28 Oct 05 09:23:25   
   
   From: BOSUNWHATCHEER@TEMP.COM   
      
   "Joe Fineman"  wrote in message   
   news:uoe5axxmg.fsf@verizon.net...   
   > Martha Bridegam  writes:   
   >   
   > > selene1022 wrote:   
   > >> Joe Fineman wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>>.> Next time thou hearest church bells, remember, they toll for   
   > >>>thee.   
   > >>>   
   > >> I don't go to church, and even if I did, there are lots of churchs   
   > >> but certainly no bells for miles around here, much less tolling   
   > >> bells.  By the way, did you catch that 60% plus voter turnout that   
   > >> approved the new Iraqi constitution? You'd think that all admirers   
   > >> of Orwell would hear a few bells peeling at news like that--at   
   > >> least in their hearts. I know I for one am pretty pleased.   
   > >>   
   > > Yes, the rust on a number of liberty bells is peeling pretty badly   
   > > lately. Got to say I'd rather hear them ringing.   
   >   
   > I seem to have misspelled "troll".   
      
   The word troll, and its license to evade, censor and dismiss anything that   
   one does not like, is an abuse of Politics and the English Language.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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