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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Lawrence who wrote (609)	1/6/1998 8:51:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 4711

Two persuasive threads. Just think, spitballs and ethnic remarks on a Grammar/Flame thread. Well, back to trying to figure out how this got manipulated into my abuse of African Americans. <e>

To: David Lawrence who wrote (609)	1/6/1998 9:08:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

Hilarious -- and appropriate -- links. (Although the flames on the Flame Thread seem to be just "for fun.") Seriously, however: what I was afraid of -- and what caused me to post that very unpopular and admittedly too abrupt message about labelling off-topic posts -- was that this thread was in danger of turning into just another chat room. And from what I have seen of chat rooms, the "riff raff" (sorry, but really the wrong word) of "friendly chatter" tends to sour very quickly, and turn into the REAL riff raff of unfriendly chatter (sort of like the sentimental drunk who turns belligerent in a nano-second). Let's get off the personal stuff and back to the point, o.k.? (Try to imagine some new visitor to the thread, interested in its purported subject, opening up some of the last zillion posts and asking himself/herself -- what the #%^@ is this all about?) jbe