From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Organization: AT&T
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:22:36 GMT

In article <ewright.717693983@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>
>Well, that's not quite true.  Charlie and company are forever parroting
>the standard spiel that says people who exercise are superior, not only
>physically, but intellectually, spiritually, morally, and in every other
>way as well.  I keep say that no, they are not.  They have simply chosen
>to concentrate their abilities in one particular area.  People who choose
>to concentrate on things other than exercise may not achieve as much
>physically, but this may be compensated for by the things they achieve
>in the areas that are important to them.  Charlie and company, however,
>will not admit this.  They deny that anyone who concentrates on artist
>or intellectual or spiritual development could possibly achieve more in
>those fields than someone who spends much, or most, or all of his time
>in the gym.  They insist that spending time on athletics does not leave
>a person less time to spend on other things and that, furthermore, exercise
>heightens a person's other abilities and makes it possible to achieve more
>than a nonexerciser possibly could in other fields anyway.
 
Father. Faatthheerrrrr. FFFaaattthheeerrrrrrrrrr.
UUummmmmmmmmmmm.
 
>   
>This is athletic snobbery, pure and simple.  Yet you do not attack them
 
 Eddie is the light that shineth ontoward a hamster sandwich. Uuummmmmm.
 
>for saying it.  Instead, you attack me.  Why?  Because I dare to say
>that people who spend less time on physical fitness and more time on
>other fields of endeavor tend to achieve more in those fields and therefore
>are not inferior to athletes.  For this you attack me as an "intellectual
>snob."
 
 Forgive them Eddie. May they be struck down as dishonest liars of
the physical fornicators. Your is the way. Ayummmmmmmmmm.
They seek to tear and rip usunder that which is the light, the way of
the Eddie is the way to purification. Father, father, father.
AAAyyuummmmmmm.
 
>
>My question for you is this.  I have never denied that people who
 
 Question those imputent dogs. We are not worthy. Eddie. Eddie. Eddiieeeee.
 
>spend large amounts of time working on their bodies are *physically*
>superior.  Why do you find it so painful to admit that people who
>spend more time working on their minds could have their own areas
>of superiority?  Why is it that when Charlie says that exercise
>makes the people who do it superior to me in every way -- physically,
>mentally, morally, and spiritually -- he's "making a sincere effort
>to help" while, when I concede the physical part but contest the others,
>I'm a braggart?  
 
 They are the unpure. The adulterers. The unwashed. We must cleanse the
planet to save the children. Uuuummmmmmm. Can they not see to devote
ones life to Edification is all that one need. Those from the Gym
must be smited from the planet. Behold dogs. T'is Eddie. Bow.
Bow wow before him. Eddie, Eddieeee, Eddiieeeeeeeeee.
 
 
 
    Your humble servant,
                  Jimmy cracked corn.
 
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