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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: PROPOSAL: DROPPING "C
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fnargle@inetnebr.com (E.)

>I'm not a major player on here, by any means, so if y'all decide
>     to blow me off, that's cool.  :)
>But, speaking as a critic, and someone who is outraged by the sheer
>     audacity of the C<s>oS, I am NOT about to give up the term clam.
>     I see no reason to.
>
>A show of 'goodwill'?  I have no goodwill toward the church, and I'm
>     sure that since I've posted a few times, and have been seen in
>     the IRC channel, that they have no goodwill toward me.
>If we do it, they will?  Yeah, just like they dropped 'Fair Game,'
>     right?  Only with Fair Game, they could just make up another
>     term for it.  Can't do that with 'wog', it's Source<tm>.
>We're the 'good guys' and we shouldn't mudsling?  Oh come ON.  Tell
>     me one group of people that 'clam' offends, on ANY grounds...
>     Religious, racial, gender-based, ANYTHING.
>EXCEPT the CoS.  To be honest, if I hurt their feelings by calling
>     them clams, I don't really care.  They 'hurt my feelings' quite
>     a bit lately.  Offended my sensibilities, too.  :)
>After the raids, the cancels, the lies, and the attempted rmgroup(s?),
>     do you think calling them CLAMS is really something to worry about?
>Well, maybe you do.  I don't.  <shrug>
>
>I was involved in a >brief< discussion about this on IRC yesterday, and
>     I'd just like to state my reasoning before the group.  If one of
>     you anti-CoS folks can change my mind, go for it.  And no, that's
>     not a 'nyah nyah nyah' thing, I'm just saying that if there's a
>     COMPELLING reason I haven't heard, then fill me in, ok?  :)
>
>Getting off the soapbox now, honest,
>
>- -E (Erisson@IRC)
    
   Seafood or no seafood, that is not the question.

   I will revile and curse fascists like the slimos, who want to 
   enslave mankind under their totalist mindwarp and steal our 
   rights, until the last breath of life has left my body.  There
   is no compromise with someone who is trying to rob mankind of 
   a free future.

   "I will not go quietly.  I will not lie down." - D. Henley

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           Rev. Dennis L Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
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