From: "P.S. Norby" <psnorby@cacd.rockwell.com>
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/09
Date: 1999-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3786379F.18FF@cacd.rockwell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01beca1a$86d1a800$0e01a8c0@eton.powernet.co.uk
Richard Heathfield wrote:
>
> P.S. Norby <psnorby@cacd.rockwell.com> wrote in article
> <3785F6D1.3BE9@cacd.rockwell.com>...
> > Kim N�rby Andersen wrote:
> > >
> > > Umm, you are not excatly being precise.....
> > >
> > > What kind of guys are you looking for..
> > ^^^^
> >
> > Sexist!
> >
>
> a) the term 'guys' is, in many parts of the world, used in the same sense
> as 'mankind' to refer to both men and women.
> b) sexist? So what? Has Usenet suddenly gone politically correct and I
> didn't notice?
> c) What has this got to do with ANSI standard C anyway?
>
> --
> Richard Heathfield
>
> The bug stops here.
If a woman is swept off a ship into the water, the cry is `Man
overboard!'
If she is killed by a hit-and-run driver, the charge is `manslaughter.'
If she is injured on the job, the coverage is `workmen's compensation.'
But if she arrives at a threshold marked `Men Only,' she knows the
admonition is not intended to bar animals or plants or inanimate
objects. It is meant for her
--- Alma Graham
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-08 0:00 Partners Wanted Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Kim N�rby Andersen
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
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1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby [this message]
1999-07-09 0:00 ` firewind
1999-07-10 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-07-10 0:00 ` Kenny A. Chaffin
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Jim
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Scott McMahan
1999-07-13 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Warner Bruns
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` LR
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Steve Horne
1999-07-14 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Mark
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Bahram Mirkalami
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