From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: "Larry Elmore" Subject: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/12/01 Message-ID: <65v3q6$5na@netra.montana.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 294288317 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <65pa18$ffc@netra.montana.edu> <65u2u8$a2u@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Organization: montana.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John English wrote in message <65u2u8$a2u@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>... >I'm trying to resist the temptation to join in this monster of a thread >-- argh! euck! it's no good! I can't help it! > >Larry Elmore (ljelmore@montana.campus.mci.net) wrote: >: ... It's not that much different than 10,000 years >: ago -- certain things are required for survival. If you didn't want to do >: them then (farming's too hard, hunting's too icky, or whatever), you >: starved, or more likely, you became a primitive socialist -- those that did >: work should share with you simply because you deserved it from your >: "inherent worth" as a supposed human being (I'm here and I'm breathing, so >: feed me!) -- and if they didn't share voluntarily, you and your other lazy >: buddies took it by force ... > >In the UK, these are no longer referred to as "primitive socialists"; >they (and their lazy buddies) are called names like the Duke of X, >Lord Y and Prince Z. The ones who did the hunting, farming etc. are >known as "peasants" or "commoners". Exactly! Actually, the modern statists (socialists, communists, fascists, etc.) seem to have the same goal in mind for themselves. "All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others..." (Napoleon the Pig?) This thread is also too long and hideous to continue and I'm retiring from it... (I'll answer e-mail, though). Larry