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X-Resent-Date:  Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:51:23 EST
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:58:42 EST
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Comments:     Originally-From: CENSORED@CENSORED.CENSORED.EDU
From:         LIBWCA@EMUVM1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Nitrous Oxide--no laughing matter
              28 Jan 1993 11:07:20 -0500 from <odailey@N2O.MAYO.EDU>

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On Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:07:20 -0500 <odailey@N2O.MAYO.EDU> said:
>There has been much on this newslist which i for one have
>found to be somewhat objectionable.  Personally, i think
>it was a mistake to let this sort of unrestrained nihilistic
>chaotic rambling to go unmoderated for so long!  It starts
>perhaps, with Martin Luther or Copernicus, but it ends up
>with Robert Mapplethorpe!
>
>The last straw, for me, was the irresponsible and scurrilious
>casual reference to the anesthetic gas, nitrous oxide, commonly
>referred to in the popular parlance as "laughing gas".
>
>This sort of casual drug reference is just the sort of thing
>which encourages our young people, many of whom are currently
>reading these messages through the terminals they are provided
>with at their local university or community college, and this
>is happening at a time in there lives when some of them are
>very impressionable about such things as casual sex and illicit
>drug use.  I find this very frustrating, given my background in
>research into the psychology of human drug addictions.  My
>research indicates that much of our drug problems are due to
>incorrect socialization practices, such as what I am seeing on
>this newslist.
>
>I call for the moderator to step in at this point and help
>alleviate some of this serious, serious problem.
>

I agree.  I, for one, found my recent reference to weasels extremely
offensive.  It hasn't been widely reported, but weasels in general
suffer a higher rate of addiction to laughing gas than any other
species of the genus Mustela.  Furthermore, weasels all over the
country are reading this in their little dens, chewing on sparrow
heads and laughing like crazy.  I think the moderator should step
in and forbid me from ever mentioning weasels again, lest I be held
responsible for some poor little weasel child loosing his daddy to
the hunter's snare.
Another thing that's offensive- the word "Furthermore".  Some of you
may recall the previous paragraph, in which the author made scandalous
reference to this problematic word.  "Furthermore" seems to be creeping
into more and more posts on this list, just as it crept into this
sentence- the very beginning of this sentence, mind you- almost without
my knowing it.  If we don't want to drown in a pustulant sea of
furthermores, I call on the narrator to ban this word forthwith.
We won't even talk about the word "forthwith".
There's been a lot of talk lately, too, about butterflies doing terrible
things to caterpillars.  Many butterflies have struggled long and hard
to overcome debilitating caterpillar addictions, and I for one do not
appreciate this serious social problem being treated as an opportunity
for sophomoric jocularity.
Take heed, Majcher- clean up this list, or I will.  I have munitions.

Cuthbert
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