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Like it as not, here in California, if we were to present a female gopher, for example, some pseudo-militant femanist would see a definite opportunity for filing a sexual-harassment case. Likewise, we would not want the latino community to find such financial opportunity. Yes, we indeed live in such a world. I would really like to wear such a shirt in public without getting bruised, battered, beaten, or sued. I can usually do something about the first three, but the last one is *real* expensive. At 08:08 PM 10/10/98 +0000, Sam Thomas wrote: >#include <stddisclaim.h> ><delurk> > >Also, let's make sure that the color of the backhoe doesn't depict the >color used by any particular manufacturer of backhoes, as they might >want to sue based on defamation of their product/brand name. > >Reall, kids, if you're that bent on creating a politically correct >expression of your negative emotions toward backhoes, just give up! >If this society has advanced to the point where one can't make fun of >anything without the fear of being sued/fired/shot stopping them, then >it's time to depopulate and start over. Being a minority (having common >sense and intelligence), I am offended by this "cleansing" process that >seems to have taken control of a little joke. I'm going to sue! > ><operational content> >no logging console >(/operational content> > ></delurk> > >On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:17:03AM -1000, scott w wrote: >> >> >> Also please point the crosshairs at the motor compartment and not the >> human operator compartment. Cool! Let's all get some shirts that >> *really* express our innermost feelings... :) >> >> scott >> >> ================================================================== >> 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. > >-- >Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. > -- Henry Spencer > ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
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