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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (11)	12/15/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: jbe	of 53

Here is another do-it-yourself kit of choice insults,many of which have an animal connection: Message 6501810 Incidentally, while idly searching for animal-insult-laden posts (I have nothing better to do with my time, of course) I uncovered an interesting phenomenon: many posters to SI use animal pseudonyms. Among them: Mud Weasel, jackal, SalmonMan, grayfish, River Rat, Wharf Rat, snake, SHARK KING. (Note that marine life is well represented.) What is the significance of this phenomenon, O Mighty Chicken? If you consider it of importance, you may also wish to consider the following post: snake terrible news, just heard on hollywood square's people with nicnames like snake and rat live on the average 4 years less than average!!! <g> regards john Message 6669110 Personally, I wonder about the lifespan of people who can neither spell nor punctuate! (Some of us would occasionally like to strangle them, grammar attack dogs that we are...) jbe

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