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From: jfox@sumax.seattleu.edu (<-----Shadoxx----->)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: ???
Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:47:13 -0800
Organization: Seattle University
Distribution: world
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From jfox Fri Jan 22 15:45:21 1993
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From: "<jfox@seattleu.edu>" <jfox@seattleu.edu>
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To: jfox
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Where is everybody? I got on this thing tuesday after MLK-day and there were 
	at least 150 posts. So where the hell is everyboby now?

Shadoxx The Wizard of Wit<-----AKA----->jfox@seattleu.edu         Seattle Rules!"Thumb on the blade and strike upward." Napoleon
1. Life is Dukkha
2. Tanha-egocentric craving
3. The only way to overcome Dukkha is to overcome Tanha
4. The only way to overcome Tanha is by following the eight-fold path
   Only then will you achieve Nirvana

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: roy@panix.com (Roy Radow)
Subject: Re: crack snapple pop
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:35:27 GMT

Re: Harvey (one of my favorites of all time)

Hurrah for Pookas and evryone who love them.

Roy
From: bz820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher M. Paulus)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Welcome!
Date: 28 Jan 1993 09:31:15 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


Hey Mike and Vikki!  How are you both?

I'm not new to Usenet, but I'm new to this group.  I've been 
reading off and on, however.  I do like Feris Bueller's day off, 
or however it's spelled.

Chris

"A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission."

Rush
-- 
Chris Paulus
Baltimore, MD
bz820@cleveland.freenet.edu
CompuServe:  71541,1617
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: pjmorse@unix.amherst.edu (Polar Bear)
Subject: Re: Dorks!!!
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:23:12 GMT

I have not been on the net as long as many here, but I have learned one thing:
if I want people to read what I write without thinking that I am an idiot, I
generally avoid calling them names. Mark me up as one who is not fond of being
called a dork.

--
Polar Bear                          i won't be a monkey in anyone's zoo
pjmorse@amherst.edu                 and i won't get fazed, whatever you do
pjmorse@unix.amherst.edu            "hit him again, he's crazy"
                                                   -ride
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: pjmorse@unix.amherst.edu (Polar Bear)
Subject: Re: jealousy
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:57:40 GMT

Daniel Drucker (daniel@mertwig.uucp) wrote:
: vlarson@quince.gac.edu (Viktoria J Larson) writes:
: 
: > Well, after reading Chris' introduction, I thought that I would officially
: > introduce myself to the newsgroup too (although I have already posted some
: > messages and also e-mailed Andrew).
: 
: Funny how the rite of passage in this group is contact with holy
: Andrew.
: 
: (Me? Jealous?)
: 
: 
: 
: --
: Daniel Drucker        N2SXX | The number PI (3.14...) and all included
: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net | digits are (C) 1993 by BigCorp, and use
:                             | without written consent is prohibited.
: 
Hmmmm... the only person I've mailed to directly is Jared. So I still have a
step to take? A rite to fulfill? Anyone? I mean, how can I mail him with 
nothing to say?

--
Polar Bear                          i won't be a monkey in anyone's zoo
pjmorse@amherst.edu                 and i won't get fazed, whatever you do
pjmorse@unix.amherst.edu            "hit him again, he's crazy"
                                                   -ride
From: bz820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher M. Paulus)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: ,suicide
Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:09:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


klopez@hamp.hampshire.edu says:

"I know I can't stop you from taking your life if you want to--I 
am armed with
only a keyboard, love, and fierce hope--but I'll try. Stay away 
from Barry
Manilow music and get out of the garage. Life gets better, but 
you have to be patient.

"Gimme an L! Gimme an I! Gimme a V! Gimme an E! L-I-V-E, LIVE! 
Otherwise,
you've got nothing to talk about in the locker room." --Maude 
Chardin, 'Harold
and Maude.'  (Which, BTW, is a movie you should watch RIGHT NOW. 
Drop
everything and watch it. I don't care if you've seen it a 
hundred times. Do
what I say. WATCH IT WATCH IT WATCH IT. OK? OK.)

If you need to talk or just think it would be fun to actually 
hear the voice
of someone on the net, call me."

I really have nothing to say on this matter, just that it's nice 
to know we have other caring people on this newsgroup, especially 
people all around the same age.  We can all relate (or try 
to relate) to what someone says.

<getting off soapbox>
-- 
Chris Paulus
Baltimore, MD
bz820@cleveland.freenet.edu
CompuServe:  71541,1617
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: Serial story anyone?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:27:13 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality

biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz (Bridget Ingham) writes:

One day, I went into the computer store, looking for the newest game on
market, when suddenly I saw...
...this man stooping down in a corner.  Nobody else saw him, so I went ove
realized...
That this man was my old roomate's girlfriend's brother's best friend. Sinc
I knew this man I asked him what he was doing stooped down in a corner, and
said...
"I've broken my leg, stupid! Can you help me?"

And then a taxi came, and Andrew and Aliza got out, and started
kicking the man in the face while issuing veiled suicidal cries for
help... (come on, lets give this story a trace of REAL LIFE)



--
Daniel Drucker        N2SXX       Coconut seashells whispering to me
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net         "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: looking for ....
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:25:45 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality


Is there anyone out there in Nassau county?


--
Daniel Drucker        N2SXX       Coconut seashells whispering to me
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net         "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Andrew runs this newsgroup!
X-To: DANIEL DRUCKER
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:56:00 GMT

From daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
><Cough> you mean considering YOU run it, Andrew...where do you find
>the time to post 90% of the articles here?

    I don't know.  Things just seem to fly by me fast.

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok)
Subject: e-mail me
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:44:48 GMT

HI!  I'm bored but don't feel like spewing, but I do feel like 
writing.  E-MAIL ME!!!   I'll write back.  


			Aliza
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: FAQ status
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:23:32 GMT

gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok) writes:

|Wait a seck - I missed something.  What am I supposed to do?  Sorry,
| I'm an idiot and everything goes in one ear any out another(or rather,
|in one eye and out another.  Sorry, couldn't help myself).

|			Aliza

Well I've missed it too!

P.S. TO EVERYONE... I wrote about 5 articles this  afternoon  but  coz
this system was under heavy load it couldn't open a process to run the
necessary  programs  to  post  the articles and therefore they weren't
sent...  I apologize to anyone expecting a followup to an article from
me...  There was one to dave another to you, Aliza and a few others...

-Jared
-- 
			   = Jared Quinn =
                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au

		      "I want to break free..."
	

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: morton@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Brent Morton)
Subject: Re: touch typing
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:03:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.154144.18511@zooid.guild.org> Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>From aa770@Freenet.carleton.ca (C. Brent Morton)
>>I manage 90-95 wpm on a QWERTY -- looks like I should try a
>>Dvorak if they're as good as it looks like for you.
>
>    Sheech....  And people say that I'm fast...

Well sure, but they didn't mean a fast *typer*.

-- Brent
morton@artifis.gaul.csd.uwo.ca
From: kurnik@lds.loral.com (Timothy J. Kurnik)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Want a girlfriend?...
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:19:16 GMT
Reply-To: kurnik@lds.loral.com
Organization: Loral Data Systems


Okay, here it is...the answer you've been searching for...how do you get a girlfriend.

For a long time, I wondered if there was something wrong with me because I never
had a serious relationship with a girl.  In fact, because I was very shy (aren't
we all), I didn't know very many girls to begin with...nevermind trying to find one
that would want to go out with me.  But here's what I discovered...

You see, girls (women, ladies, etc) all belong to this _*HUGE*_ network...kinda like
a club.  And when you're at the age where you start to notice and become attracted to
them, they don't notice you back (yet)...because this network is very much a "girls-
only" thing.  They do things like: have secret meetings in the bathroom (this is why
more than one go at a time), pass encrypted (big, bubbly letters packed real close
together) notes in class, wear disguises (make-up) so you won't know who's giving you
the run-around, etc.  It's all a conspiracy against us, the good GUYS.

Now that you know what you're up against, here what you do...you have to try to be
friends with at least one of them.  More is helpful, but one will do.  Because, once
you get to know one, your foot is in the door to their "clubhouse."  Once one sees
you as *non-threatening*, she'll introduce you to a few of her friends.  Now you're
cookin'.  Through those friends, you'll meet others...and so on.  Once this happens,
once you're in the door, you'll be recognized throughout the world.

Once you're in, there are *tons* of great benefits: warm, caring individuals, shoulders
to cry on, soft hugs, flowers, smiles, attention, affection, just to name a few.

The more of them you know, the more that want to get to know you...Oh, one more thing,
a little suggestion--tease them.  Although they won't admit it to us (remember, it's
a conspiracy thing), they love it.  Don't be cruel, and don't over do it.  But tease
them in a friendly-sort-of-way.  You may get some friendly *love* slaps, but that's
one of the benefits, remember.  When you leave them (for a few minutes, for the day,
etc.) and if you've been teasing them, after a while, all they remember is that some-
thing about you got them all fired up inside...and they'll think it's love.

I hope this helps...

-T.J.
From: bz820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher M. Paulus)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: IRC
Date: 28 Jan 93 09:31:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


How many of you have IRC access on your accounts?  I was 
thinking we could meet in IRC at a certain time and talk live.  
What do you think?  We'd have to plan this well in advance 
though.
-- 
Chris Paulus
Baltimore, MD
bz820@cleveland.freenet.edu
CompuServe:  71541,1617
From: biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz (Bridget Ingham)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: New Zealand!
Followup-To: alt.kids-talk
Distribution: world
Reply-To: biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz
Organization: 
Keywords: 
Summary: 
Date: 29 Jan 93 09:52:55 GMT
Organization: Private UUCP Site

> Australia is a boring place... I agree

Why not come to NZ for your holiday? Sorry to sound like one of those ads on tv.

    Bridget Ingham              biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz
    Lower Hutt,  New Zealand
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Come on stupid idiots!
X-To: WARREN MICHAEL KINMAN
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:14:00 GMT

From wkinman@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Warren Michael Kinman)
>1.  The cat/buttered-bread combination equal each other out, and thus create a
>    rift between the law of nature and the law of likely possibilities, and an
>    anti-gravitional field is formed.  Maybe you could strap one to your back??

    Heh.  I like this one.  I shoulda thought of that.

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.
From: biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz (Bridget Ingham)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: Bleeps
Followup-To: alt.kids-talk
Distribution: world
Reply-To: biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz
Organization: 
Keywords: 
Summary: 
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:45:29 GMT
Organization: Private UUCP Site

In article <1993Jan21.221654.16280@zooid.guild.org> Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
> 
> From rlittell@wizard.Berkeley.EDU (Rich Littell)
> >I agree with Bridget -- to many BLEEPS and to many bad words, too!
> >
> >The F word is not appropriate language.
> >
> >People use that word when they haven't got a clue as to what the
> >correct word should be!
> 
>     People who write like the above message don't know how to express themselves
> in messages very well.
> 
>     "bad words, too!"
> 
>     Do you get the feeling that this person is rather young?  Maybe it's
> just me.
> 
> 
>     (And I came to Usenet to escape this bullshit)
                                           ^^^^^^^^        
That's just the sort of thing this message is against!!!
 


    Bridget Ingham              biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz
    Lower Hutt,  New Zealand
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: more religion
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:36:29 GMT

Kirsten Marie Olsen <ko24+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

|I know a while ago there was a big discussion on religion here, and I
|was wondering if anyone could help me.  I'm interested in finding out
|about the religion known as Wicca.  I've only heard little bits and
|pieces about it, but it sounds good to me as I'm trying to figure out
|what I believe (I was raised Methodist, but rejected it almost a year
|ago).

I haven't heard of Wicca,  maybe u should  try  alt.religion??   If  u
dont  have  it  i'm  sure  someone could post u a article in there and
foward the answer...

Hmm  I  was rasied Roman Catholic and rejected it about a yaer ago.. I
am Agnostic now...

|thanks,
|kirsten

-Jared

-- 
			   = Jared Quinn =
                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au

		      "I want to break free..."
	

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Idiots
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:38:00 GMT

    Why do all my old friends seem like idiots?

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Piss me off!
X-To: MARK ALLAN HUNT
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:13:00 GMT

From mahunt@eos.ncsu.edu (MARK ALLAN HUNT)
>Watch what you wish for the good old Secret Service is reading the news reader.

    Oh.  I didn't know that they had an interest in this place.

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: e-mail me!
X-To: DAVE BROWN
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:54:00 GMT

From dagbrown@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown)
>I had a pretty good band teacher--he'd dig up pieces with some pretty good oboe
>parts, until I demonstrated quite conclusively that I was incompetent at the
>instrument :-) .

    Yeah.  Kinda the same here last year.

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: looking for ....
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:07:33 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality

kurnik@lds.loral.com (Timothy J. Kurnik) writes:

> I have a friend in Massapequa(sp?), Long Island...does that count?

Yes


--
Daniel Drucker        N2SXX | The number PI (3.14...) and all included
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net | digits are (C) 1993 by BigCorp, and use
                            | without written consent is prohibited.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: pjmorse@unix.amherst.edu (Polar Bear)
Subject: Re: Douglas Adams
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:54:19 GMT

ove tro (ovep@kih.no) wrote:
: In article <1k2hhuINNkaf@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, labyris@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Commander Cody) writes:
: > all of which are hilarious!!!And I think there is a fifth book out
: |> called 'Young Zaphod plays it safe'.
: |> 
: |> COMMANDER CODY
: |> 
: There is also a sixth part in the Hitch-hiker's trilogy ??? called
: "Mostly Harmless".  (I haven't got it, yet... :-(   )
: He has also colaborated in writing "Last chance to see.", a mostly serious :-)
: book about endangered species.  Good, very recommended !
: 
: -- Ove
: 
: - ----------==========###########==========-------- -
:     //                     | "What do you think
:   \X/ (Yep, me too...)     |  this is?  Real life?"
: Ove Petter Tro,            |    - Ford Fairlane.
: Kongsberg College          |
: of Engineering, Norway     | A nowrap .sig....
: - ----------==========###########==========-------- -
: 
"Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" is a short story stuck on the end of a book called
"The Complete Hitchhikers Guide," which is just a compendium of the first four
books. "Mostly Harmless" is the fifth book.
--
Polar Bear                          i won't be a monkey in anyone's zoo
pjmorse@amherst.edu                 and i won't get fazed, whatever you do
pjmorse@unix.amherst.edu            "hit him again, he's crazy"
                                                   -ride
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Programming (was Re: Suicide)
X-To: DANIEL DRUCKER
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:52:00 GMT

From daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
>NO! NO! NO! Andrew, 'classic threads' have to go on for MONTHS to be
>considered classic.

    Well, it's just the relationship of the two.

>Take a peek at alt.folklore.computers and learn what the net is.

    Maybe I'll check in later.

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: e-mail me!
X-To: DANIEL DRUCKER
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:26:00 GMT

From daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
>Hey, a flame war...fun...

    Not.

    Although Font Collecting doesn't really sound like that exciteing a
hobby.

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.
From: jfox@sumax.seattleu.edu (<-----Shadoxx----->)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: hey Dead
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:25:25 -0800
Organization: Seattle University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sumax.seattleu.edu


Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Bleeps
X-To: RICH LITTELL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:56:00 GMT

From rlittell@wizard.Berkeley.EDU (Rich Littell)
>I agree with Bridget -- to many BLEEPS and to many bad words, too!
>
>The F word is not appropriate language.
>
>People use that word when they haven't got a clue as to what the
>correct word should be!

    People who write like the above message don't know how to express themselves
in messages very well.

    "bad words, too!"

    Do you get the feeling that this person is rather young?  Maybe it's
just me.


    (And I came to Usenet to escape this bullshit)

    (Oh, and another thing; I don't see what the problem is.  This group is
for the "kids" (even though we do have a few adults), and I think that they
should speek whatever diction that they feel fit.  If you want advice for
kids, read misc.kids.  I don't know what you're looking for in here.)

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.
From: lynx@terapin.com (Debbie Caraway)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: Bleeps
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:16:03 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <1993Jan21.221654.16280@zooid.guild.org>, Andrew McCallum
<andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>From rlittell@wizard.Berkeley.EDU (Rich Littell)
>>I agree with Bridget -- to many BLEEPS and to many bad words, too!
>>
>>The F word is not appropriate language.
>>
>>People use that word when they haven't got a clue as to what the
>>correct word should be!
>
>    People who write like the above message don't know how to express
themselves
>
>in messages very well.
>
>    "bad words, too!"
>
>    Do you get the feeling that this person is rather young?  Maybe it's
>just me.
>
>
>    (And I came to Usenet to escape this bullshit)
>
>    (Oh, and another thing; I don't see what the problem is.  This group is
>for the "kids" (even though we do have a few adults), and I think that they
>should speek whatever diction that they feel fit.  If you want advice for
>kids, read misc.kids.  I don't know what you're looking for in here.)
>
>---
>    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
>    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
>    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com
>
>                                  Byte me.
>
Sounds like a putdown and a lousy excuse to be insensitive and rude.