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Subject:Re: &*%$ words From:Mike Pope <mikep -at- ASYMETRIX -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 1 Aug 1994 09:14:00 PDT
Ok, well, why don't you post those 7 words here, and perhaps sprinkle them
freely into your emails, and indeed, into your technical publications. Try
dropping them into the conversation during the next meeting with your boss.
Then we can all judge -- and your customers can, too, and your boss -- how
far
we've come and how much more acceptable those words are now in everyday
discourse.
-- Mike Pope
mikep -at- asymetrix -dot- com
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>From: TECHWR-L
>To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
>Subject: Re: &*%$ words
>Date: Sunday, July 31, 1994 1:46AM
>Shelly La Rock <larock -at- tycho -dot- arh -dot- cdc -dot- com> wrote:
>>If a person doesn't think that an
>>expletive or any other word is appropriate to put in their message, >then
>don't put it. And don't put any version of it either, because I'm >sure
>everyone here is smart enought to figure it out. If someone >doesn't think
>the "f word" is right to say, then I assume they won't >want to think it
>either.
>I have to disagree here. I might very well type sh*t because I know very
well
>that you know very well what I wanted to say. I don't know how it is on the
>rest of the net, but that little asterisk keeps me from getting kicked off
>aol. (It's a family service.)
>George Carlin addressed this issue some 20 years ago... he did a routine
>about seven words you couldn't say on TV. But now we see how times have
>changed. I think they're saying all but one of them on the major networks.
>Now, someone ought to do a post on the seven words you can't post on the
>Internet.
>What the hey, though. Some folks offend easily. Other folks couldn't even
get
>Cover Girl to make them blush.