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Re: Internet 1, Backhoe 0

  • From: Howard C. Berkowitz
  • Date: Sat Oct 10 14:12:56 1998 
At 11:13 AM -0700 10/9/98, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>I just took a peek at the Gomes Gopher shirt.
>
>IMHO, it would be a LOT better not to depict *any* person at all. Simply a
>picture of the back-hoe, bright yellow, in the gun-sights. Make is a
>hi-tech gun-sight with ranging ranging, azimuth, and elevation markings.
>The back-hoe should be one of those enclosed driver compartment types so
>the operator can't be seen.
>
>No matter which operator is depicted, someone could construe it as being
>racially/ personally defamitory. This would prevent many of us from wearing
>it in the work-place.
>
>
People don't kill fiber, backhoes kill fiber.

Support the right to keep and bear backhoes.