HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Ok, my thoughts about the con (was Re: Well, God Damn It!
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 22:57:24 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Jul29.135459.14226@watson.ibm.com> <1992Jul30.034857.26852@reed.edu>

Nelson Minar writes:
>But the motss.con is near perfect pool of people to meet. How often do
>you get a room full of 60 lesbigays, most of whom are computer
>competent, educated, and intelligent. Bingo, affinity. I've never been
>in a group of so many people that I really wanted to get to know - it
>was quite wonderful, and also overwhelming.

Most definitely.  I realized fairly early on that it would simply
not be POSSIBLE to get to know everyone as well as I might like
to, so I did my best in the time available. ;-)

In retrospect, it might have been better from that perspective to
have stayed at the hotel with other motsseurs, but that just
wasn't financially workable.

And for those of you at Rooster Rock who were wondering if I'm
*really* that sensitive to the sun -- I did indeed get pink and
sting on arms, neck and nose from the short time I was on the
beach.

Of course, it was the absolute *last* thing that should have been
done to challenge me to drop my pants. I eagerly await the
photographs.
 
() Only a monomaniac gets what we commonly refer to as
() results.
()      -- Einstein
-----
[> George D. Madison | NBCS: B8f+t+w-e+s+k+a!cv | Just say NO to razors! <]
[> It's a BEAR thing -- you wouldn't understand. <|> furr@cup.portal.com <]
Newsgroups: soc.motss,talk.politics.misc,rec.arts.tv,alt.individualism,rec.arts.tv.uk,alt.activism,rec.arts.tv.soaps
From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Gayspace (was Re: Do You Remember... and Re: On Banning Private Discrimination)
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:55:59 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.094019.14254@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:
>In article <l76cdcINN1l6@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
>>
>>Last night I had dinner at my (West Hollywood) neighborhood
>>hangout.  It's a large, noisy, cruisy, gay Mexican restaurant
>>whose food is mediocre, but whose margaritas are *faaabulous*. 
>>As I stood at the bar waiting for a table, I noticed 4 young and
>
>Do you want to stop cross-posting this shit to sewsgroups that it doesn't
>concern.

Describing Usenet as "sewsgroups," perhaps "sewersgroups," seems
somehow tremendously appropriate.  Thank you for that pearl.

As for "cross-posting this shit to sewsgroups that it doesn't
concern," what an excellent point.  I'm sure the folks on alt.activism
and rec.arts.tv.soaps have been just THRILLED to pieces by this whole
interminable thread.  In fact, let's add alt.irc.recovery and
comp.lang.perl to the list -- I bet those are some other sewsgroups
that would benefit from this little vein of wisdom.

>Seriously, get a life punk.

Right.

The previous post has been brought to you by the numbers "1" and "5",
and the letter "Q".

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "You mean there are TWO of you, Pierce?
\  / twpierce@amherst.edu      /  God help us all."
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Major Charles Emerson Winchester III
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: brent@syacus.acus.oz.au (Brent Davies)
Subject: Re: Children
Organization: Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Melbourne
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 01:44:27 GMT

joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis) writes:

>An interesting problem in the United States is that parents believe
>that it is their right and privilege (hey RY, check out the spelling,
>dude!)...

Tsk, you're *such* a stirrer, Jj!  I'm sending you a *BIG* *WOODEN* *SPOON*.
*Just* like the kind Grandma uses to--um--*cook* with.

--Brent
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
Subject: Re: I HATE GAY MEN.
Reply-To: shore@tc.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:34:29 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.213905.22437@cis.ohio-state.edu>, amz@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arnold M Zwicky) writes:
> [i omit the box and voicemail numbers.  if you really want this
> guy, you'll have to find your own copy of _columbus alive_.]

Or the Ithaca Times - the identical ad appeared here, too.

One sees relatively less of this self-hating garbage
from lesbians, and I wonder why that is.  Does our
self-hate express itself differently (concerns over
body image;  giving ourselves over to concerns about
others, often to our own detriment), or do we simply
hate ourself less?  I sometimes suspect that men are 
taught that their identity lies in their masculinity,
whereas we women are taught that femininity is something
to hide behind and is more of a facade than an identity.  
I dunno.

Still, every time I see something like that ad I feel
like someone just booted me in the gut.
-- 
       Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
From: mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas)
Subject: Re: "Rational" Humans vs ?? (was Re: On Banning Private Discrimination)
Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:34:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.004030.3574@macc.wisc.edu>, anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Jul23.000320.27396@gordian.com>
> mike@gordian.com (Michael A.  Thomas) writes:
> 
> >There is nothing utopian (in the sense of we would have a
> >perfectly harmonious society) about this, it would just be
> >_optimal_ given the way human beings behave.  Problems would
> >still exist, but there would be less problem when considered
> >on whole.
> 
> And that's not utopian, eh?  The notion of "optimal" wrt to
> human beings is absurd on its face.

  Optimal meaning that it would be the best overall solution
given other possible solutions, yes. Does this mean that we
would ever be able to achieve this optimality? Of course not,
people do make mistakes, and to the degree that mistakes
go unchecked or unnoticed would be to the detriment of everybody.
But do mistakes made under a certain systems' guise invalidate
the whole system? Only if the solutions to the mistakes actually
contradict the base premises which hold the system together.
  One reason why I believe that individualism is a much better choice
overall is because mistakes cannot be institutionalized on a societal
basis through government. Localized mistakes are quite a bit easier 
to fix than intrinsic institutional mistakes made by governments. 
How many examples of that do I need to bring up?

> You're wasting our time.  Come back when you actually *have*
> an argument.

  Is that a royal _our_? It's nice to see that you speak for the
rest of soc.motss. When was the coronation?

-- 

		Michael Thomas	(mike@gordian.com)
	"I don't think Bambi Eyes will get you that flame thrower..."  
		-- Hobbes to Calvin
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From: rich@netcom.com (Richard Poppen)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Gay Staffer leaves Bush Campaign
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:20:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Jul23.124256.4267@news.ysu.edu> doug@cc.ysu.edu
(Doug Sewell) writes:

>	Inside is an article about a queer [...] Bush/Quayle [...]
>staffer.  After working several months to set up a Washington, DC phone
>bank for B/Q, this openly gay (Republican white) male found himself
>eased out of a job, after refusing a job change to janitorial
>supervisor.

I'm surprised they offered him that job change.  After all, didn't Bush
say in 1988 that gay people weren't fit to clean the White House
toilets?

--Rich, who used to be a Republican, but is feeling much better now
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: buckmr@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: 1992 4th Annual LAMMY Awards (list)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:32:25 GMT



The results of the 1992 Lambda Literary Awards (4th Annual) follow:

Fiction
WHAT THE DEAD REMEMBER by Harlan Greene
THE GILDA STORIES by Jewelle Gomez
THE REVOLUTION OF LITTLE GIRLS by Blanche Boyd

Anthology
CHICANA LESBIANS: THE GIRLS OUR MOTHERS WARNED US ABOUT, Edited By Carla 
Trujillo
BROTHER TO BROTHER: New Writings by Black Gay Men, Edited By Essex Hemphill

Mystery
MURDER BY TRADITION by Kathleen Forrest
A COUNTRY OF OLD MEN by Joseph Hansen

Nonfiction
THE ZUNI MAN-WOMAN by Will Roscoe
CANCER IN TWO VOICES by Sandra Butler/Barbara Rosenblum

Poetry
AN ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD by Adrienne Rich
THE ROAD BEFOE US: 100 Gay Black Poets, Edited By Assoto Saint

Science Fiction/Fantasy
THE DARK BEYOND THE STARS by Frank M. Robinson
THE GILDA STORIES by Jewelle Gomez

Gay and Lesbian Humor
PUTTING ON THE RITZ by Joe Keenan

Gay and Lesbian Small Press Award
GAY ROOTS: TWENTY YEARS OF GAY SUNSHINE, Edited by Winston Leyland

Gregory Kolovakos Award for AIDS Writing
TO THE FRIEND WHO DID NOT SAVE MY LIFE by Herve' Guilbert

Ferry-Grumley Foundation winners
THE REVOLUTION OF LITTLE GIRLS by Blanche McCrary Boyd
VANISHING ROOMS by Melvin Dixon






-- 
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"In 1988 1800 homosexuals were dischaged from the military. The cost to train
them was $23 000 000. 35% of those discharged were women. Women make up only 
5% of the military. " -- MTV's _Buzz_.
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Subject: Re: Children
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Francisco
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:40:58 GMT

> joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis) writes:
>
>An interesting problem in the United States is that parents believe
>that it is their right and privilege (hey RY, check out the spelling,
>dude!) to be the sole determinant of the their child's values.

 [splendid stuff about the need to *require* education about sex
 and sexuality for all children for the good of society whether
 their parents like it or not...deleted]

What he said!
-- 
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Newsgroups: soc.motss,talk.politics.misc,rec.arts.tv,alt.individualism,rec.arts.tv.uk,alt.activism,rec.arts.tv.soaps
From: dooley@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Lois-Anna Dooley)
Subject: Re: Gayspace (was Re: Do You Remember... and Re: On Banning Private Discrimination)
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:55:14 GMT

In article <l7at5tINNrnd@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.094019.14254@cs.hw.ac.uk> 
>neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:
>| In article <l76cdcINN1l6@mizar.usc.edu> 
>| adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
>| >
>| >Last night I had dinner at my (West Hollywood) neighborhood
>| >hangout.  It's a large, noisy, cruisy, gay Mexican restaurant
>| >whose food is mediocre, but whose margaritas are *faaabulous*. 
>|
>| Do you want to stop cross-posting this shit to sewsgroups that it doesn't
>| concern.
>|
>| Seriously, get a life punk.
>
>This isn't exactly the language Neil used in his letter
>to me.  I think he called my post "fag shit".  But I could
>be wrong.
>
>Drop dead, asshole.
>

Enough, boys.  If you're going to fight, please take it outside.
(Outside of rec.arts.tv.soaps, that is.)

Thanks.


Lois-Anna
From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: *BIG* *RED* *JOBS*
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:05:01 GMT
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton

lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) wrote: 
->emcmanus@gr.osf.org (Eamonn McManus) writes:
->>henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
->>>Required skills:
->>...
->>>* U.S. Citizenship
->>
->>U.S. Citizenship is a skill?  Does that mean if I practice hard enough
->>I can become a Citizen of the World's Greatest Democracy too?
->
->All you need is $1 Million, and getting $1 Million is a skill (unless
->your born rich) :)

actually, all that gets you is a green card (which have actually been
pink for some time), which would not be sufficient for this position.

--
# henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc.  / <henry@ads.com>
From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: I HATE GAY MEN.
Date: 31 Jul 92 10:23:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Jul31.102312.28133
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <1992Jul30.015346.16915@syacus.acus.oz.au> brent@syacus.acus.oz.au (Brent Davies) writes:
>>Gay Pride. Published by Anonymous Queers June 1992.
>Says heaps, doesn't it?

Well, actually Queers Read This was "published anonymously by Queers".

It's a shame that the author of this thing chose to emulate an
excellent document that, for many people, started Queer Pride. I
suspect he thought it was an appropriate manifesto to copy, but I
think he missed completely.
-- 
                __
nelson@reed.edu \/    The look in his eyes when it hit - kid, it was tasty...
From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: We got jobs
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:50:43 GMT
Reply-To: shore@tc.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Theory Center

[]
Those of you who are currently looking for Unix-type jobs
may have seen our posting in misc.jobs.  We're currently
looking for Unix systems administrators and programmers at
all levels to work on our *big* *throbbing* *systems*.
The Theory Center exists primarily to deliver high-performance
cycles to scientists and researchers throughout the country,
and we're becoming more involved in testing newer, unproven
technologies, as well.  The jobs are interesting and the
work environment is exceptional.  Ithaca provides an out-
standing quality of life.  Aside from providing the usual
services one requires to make it through the day (great
bookstores and restaurants, local arts community, some new
high-octane coffee shops), there is a thriving local gay
and lesbian community.  We have city and county non-discrimination
ordinances, and every sort of homo from the A-gay to the
crunchy rural.

Our toys are really big.  Email resumes to shore@theory.tc.
cornell.edu.
-- 
       Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: eiverson@nmsu.edu (Eric Iverson)
Subject: Gay Staffer leaves Bush Campaign
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Distribution: soc
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:25:16 GMT


Just tuned in on the tail end of Nightline.  What's the deal with the
Bush campaign forcing out a gay staffer?  Forgive me if this is old
news.

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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark)
Subject: Re: book report
Organization: UNIX System Laboratories, Summit, NJ
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:03:27 GMT

In article <nhurv7c@fido.asd.sgi.com> dauber@sgi.com (Jeff Dauber) writes:
>_Confessions of a Mask_ by Mishima.
>
>
>One warning, it is written in a japanese style, which some
>westerners consider difficult to read.  None of the action
>is actually described.  You know how everyone feels about what
>is going on, and you know everything about arriving at the 
>place of action, but the action remains undescribed.

Actually, Mishima's style is heavily westernized with florid, rocco
prose.  He's good, but his style was greatly influenced by the
west.  I can suggest some Wai Shosetsu (I Novels) that are much
more typically Japanese, though I don't know any off hand that
are particularly Queer.

Ry Schwark
ry@usl.com

Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: kls4344@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Duke: 1992 NCAA Champs!)
Subject: Re: resonances
Reply-To: kls4344@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:53:39 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.001211.10848@cis.ohio-state.edu>, 
amz@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arnold M Zwicky) writes:
>a small extract from an article by richard wolkomir in a recent
>_smithsonian magazine_, on the sign languages of the deaf [quite
>a good article, i think].  

This is a very good article, I agree.

>(periodically i post about parallels between the experiences
>and positions of gay people, women, ethnic minorities, the
                                                        ^^^
>deaf, etc.  in doing this i am *not* saying "it's all the same
 ^^^^
>thing".  

arnold, thank you for sharing this with us.  I just want to point out to you
that in your list of groups, you write "gay people" and "the deaf," an
inconsistency that bothers me.  You don't write "the gay."  I want people to
remember that the word "deaf" is adjectival (maybe you, as a linguist, can help
me clarify), and that deaf people want to be referred to as people, just like
gay people do.  I hate the term "the deaf" because it's so narrow and focuses
only on one part of a fascinating group of people.

Katie
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
Subject: Re: The sexiest man on TV
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:31:39 GMT

jglover@ducvax.auburn.edu (Jay Glover) wrote: 
->The Sexiest Man Alive (TSMA) hardly strikes me as the type who would
->make homophobic jokes.  Which brings up a point:  If he was making a
->joke and assuming he's straight, does that automatically make the
->joke homophobic just because a straight person make a joke with gay
->overtones (undertones)?

that depends on whether or not you can think for yourself.


--
# henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc.  / <henry@ads.com>
From: sej5g@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Susan Elizabeth Juroff)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: The Heterosexual Questionnaire
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:32:39 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

Just wanted to thank you for the Questionnaire.  I, too, have
friends to whom this kind of thing isn't accessable. 
-->sej5g
--
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: rjones@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rex A. Jones)
Subject: Re: Clinton's Speech
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 20:06:19 GMT

adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:

>In article <1992Jul17.213042.29089@macc.wisc.edu> 
>anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>|
>| In article <l6eavnINNbnk@mizar.usc.edu>
>| adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
>|
>| >I am astounded that gay men and lesbians were mentioned as often
>| >as we were, in speech after speech, even as the party was busy
>| >redefining itself as "centrist".
>|
>| Well, most of us are, in fact, centrist, so there's a
>| certain common sense, eh?

>The political center towards which Clinton is dragging the
>party has heretofore *not* included us.  The Bush campaign
>has already made noises to the effect that Clinton's pro-choice
>and pro-gay/lesbian rights views are proof positive that Clinton
>is a liberal in centrist clothing.  In any case, we'll soon
>see what the American People (tm) think about this.

While I don't trust the 'conservative' element of the American people
(those who Gore Vial call the party of God), I do trust that  the
point of bringing the issues about gays into the campaign will be that
all americans can be mistreated and that all should be equal.  It will
show the conservatives don't give a damn about individual liberties.
>Arne
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: New George Michael Video
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:53:22 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.170828.9433@cabezon.uucp> kenr@cabezon.uucp (Ken Richards) writes:
>henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
>
>>->Miss Thang, That boy isn't kidding anyone... especially with that new haircut,
>>->those glasses, that earring, and shakin' his fanny all over the screen on his
>>->videos?  Puh Leazzze!!!!!!
>
>>you mustn't know very many straight people to make such a judgment.
>
>Oh please. If George Michael is straight, then George Bush is gay.

(A statement, I'll note, which has not been disproven.  Hey, if Joe
McCarthy can be a homosexual...)

I'm reminded of a quote from Boy George (I believe) a few years ago:
"George Michael's heterosexuality is the best-kept secret in the music
industry."

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "You mean there are TWO of you, Pierce?
\  / twpierce@amherst.edu      /  God help us all."
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Major Charles Emerson Winchester III
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: thaaang@odin.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance)
Subject: Re: the b-word
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:43:57 GMT

booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

>Perhaps the oft used word "phobe" is more accurate.

Accurate, yes, but weak, maybe because it's used so much more often than
breeder (I think part of the word's potency is that it *is* such a rarely-
used word (in the Homosexual Circles I frequent); kinda like the Bloom
County strip about the press' reluctance to talk about AIDS because to
do so competently would require digging into the vault and taking out
some usually-taboo words like condom and homosexual and sex. People
notice the word more because it's more of an event when it's used). We
know it's a hurtful word, and we kinda wince to use it because we know
we're stooping to the same level as our opressors, but it's sometimes
the only way for us to vent our rage because you can't kill a kneebiter
with a ground-to-air missle.

I really like 'bigot' because it's exactly what these people are, but
that word is generally associated with black/white relations, so it
doesn't pack the right punch either. What else could be used as a
replacement? Something that concisely ferrets out the phobes without
hurting the innocent, but still can express the anger and hate we feel
towards these people? I can't think of anything... ideas, anyone?

>I don't know when it was that I scratched Fate's car door, but I should have
>left a note. --Tim Mefford

Love this sig, btw...

--
John Dorrance    ** Disco Diva y Flamenco Chico **    thaaang@odin.unomaha.edu

		I always thought of you as my brick wall
		   Built like an angel, six feet tall.
From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: *BIG* *RED* *JOBS*
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:41:26 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch):

:* Unix tools experience (csh, make, awk or perl,

The csh is not a Unix tool.  It's an abomination.

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more
annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
                -- Oscar Wilde
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Engineer bashing
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 05:01:26 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Jul20.233714.6607@auto-trol.com> katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty) writes:
>henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
>: carlson@ab24.larc.nasa.gov (Ann Carlson) wrote: 
>: ->Yup, both.  I work for NASA during the day and teach night classes for the
>: ->Tidewater Virginia branch of St. Leo College, a fully accredited 4-year
>: ->institution.
>: 
>: why is it that, when otherwise unimpressive people are trying to make
>: an impression, they refer to colleges as "institutions"?  
>: 
>why is it that, when otherwise unimpressive people are trying to make
>an impression, they assume that those using words longer than two syllables
>are doing it only to make an impression?

What other reason would there have been?   I wondered why Ann thought she
had to tell us it was accredited.
 
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