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|    Martin Gregorie to The old geezer    |
|    Re: Why didn't Frank like........?    |
|    27 Sep 15 21:11:08    |
      From: martin@address-in-sig.invalid              On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:54:25 -0700, The old geezer wrote:              > .....baseball/football/ sports? Didn't he know that pro sports is the       > REAL opiate of the masses???? TOG              No, probably not. FZ was a true music geek and most geeks couldn't care       less about entertainment for the masses masquerading as 'sport'. He       appears to have spent very little time being a spectator.              If you are personally involved, physically or mentally, in doing       something then it can be legitimately called a sport, hobby, etc.       Everything else, where you're just a spectator, is just passive       entertainment.                     --       martin@ | Martin Gregorie       gregorie. | Essex, UK       org |              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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