Re: Crack dot Com announces ABUSE!

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From: f...
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:00

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In <43vrk0$h...@omni.voicenet.com> mike...@omni.voicenet.com (Mike Edmonson) writes:

>In article <43vnnc$p...@shellx.best.com>,
>Rob Jellinghaus <ro...@unreal.com> wrote:
>|d...@crack.com (Dave Taylor) wrote:
>|>         conniseurs alike.  And finally, it's a scroller without a gay
>|>         theme.  Just true sci-fi grit, what you've been waiting for!
>|
>|Why the "gay" crack, Dave?  Nice announcement, spoiled by a gratuitous
>|insult.  "Lame" would've done just as well.

Lest we forget, "gay" meant happy, carefree, not serious, etc. a long
time before its meaning changed. This is the context I read the
announcement in. Don't turn this innocent slip of the keyboard into some
"PC" fest. 

>Unless you're in a wheelchair, chump.

See! "lame" would offend someone else. 
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Subject: Re: Crack dot Com announces ABUSE!
Date: 1995/09/23
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