From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:05:36 GMT

In article <36732@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <1992Nov4.202447.10362@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>
>>BTW, has everyone got their rubber boots and air filters ready?  We'll need
>>them so that we don't get chicken shit on our feet and to keep the smell of
>>it from knocking us out.
>
>Even if the air did fill with that smell, it's just a smell.  One hell of a 
>lot better for your general health than all the toxins the Bush crowd would 
>have continued to pump into the air had they stuck around.  Good riddance to 
>bad rubbish.  

Funny, I don't seem to recall saying anything about supporting Bush.  If I'm
anti-Clinton, does that make me automatically pro-Bush?  Hell, I'm pretty 
liberal for a white-boy from the South: I don't believe in deities, I support
a woman's right to have an abortion, I don't believe in censorship, and I'd
love to see a lot less government involvement in people's private lives.  But
I do believe that none of the other problems can be solved without first
addressing the national debt.

>>Y'all ready for another redneck to screw things up again like Jimmy did?  If
>>you're going to buy a computer, buy it now, because you'll not be able to
>>once that stupid hillbilly gets in office.  
>
>Get a clue.  If you're comparing IQs, the Bush/Quayle administration set an 
>all time low (its only close competition was the Reagan/Bush administration).
>I'm proud to have helped to elect a President and Vice President with at least
>above average intelligence (you don't get to be a Rhodes Scholar by being a 
>"stupid hillbilly").  

Again, where have I said anything about supporting Bush or Quayle?  If IQ is
so important, why don't we have nuclear scientists and other smart folks in
office instead of a bunch of asshole lawyers?  And Dave, Ole Miss has never
had the reputation of being a great school except maybe at the state level,
but we've had a few Rhodes Scholars.   

>Most of my family is from various parts of the South.  I'm a first generation
>Yankee (though I do live in _South_ Jersey), but my Dad's side of the family
>has been living in Virgina and other parts of the South for 300 years.  Being
>from the South doesn't make you an ignorant hillbilly any more than being from
>the midwest makes you dull, being from the West makes you a drug crazed hippy,
>or being from the East makes you misanthropic.  I'm considerably offended at
>your prejudices.

Haven't you figured it out yet?  I'm from the South!  Hell, I drive a huge
gas-guzzling Chevy Blazer 4x4, I wear shit-kickers, I drink lots of beer, I
dance on tables while listening to country music, and I'm probably as much
a redneck as anyone else who posts on the network.  When I go to Chicago and
New York City, people wonder why in the world I have shoes on and ask me to
say things just to hear me drawl.  Maybe I should be embarrassed, but I was
raised here and hope to live here and don't feel any need to change.

As for being prejudiced, I'm only taking after certain other groups who feel
that the only person qualified to criticize a member of a group is another
member of the same group.  Clinton is a redneck, I'm a redneck.

>>Skip Sauls, Not Politically Correct and Damn Proud of It!
>
>Politically ignorant sounds more like it.

Oh no, flamed by an Amiga god!  What am I to do?  Cancel the A4000 order
that I placed today?  No, I forgot, you don't fool with that sort of mid-range
non-SCSI crap, do you?  Too bad you can't seem to get anything that you are
working on out the door in a timely manner.

>Dave Haynie / Commodore Technology, High-End Amiga Systems Design (cool stuff)
> "The Crew That Never Rests"  {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh   BIX: hazy
>		SCIENCE:	"I'll believe it when I see it"  
>		RELIGION:	"I'll see it when I believe it"

Skip Sauls
skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu



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