bts@unc.UUCP (Bruce Smith) (01/13/84)
From Ogden Nash: (without permission)
THE WOMBAT
The wombat lives across the seas,
Among the far Antipodes.
He may exist on nuts and berries,
Or then again, on missionaries;
His distant habitat precludes
Conclusive knowledge of his moods.
But I would not engage the wombat
In any form of mortal combat.
Be warned, unc!tim.
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Bruce T. Smith, UNC-Chapel Hill
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bts.unc@CSnet-Relay (lesser NETworks)bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes ) (01/13/84)
I have had enough! I must side with unc!tim on this issue of Wombats. We are being infested with the perpetrators of Secular Dialectical Wombatism who will be the undoing our morals, our faiths, our sexuality and our hot tubs. The Insidious Conspiracy that has developed has already challenged our natural right to 20-meter racing yachts and our right to arm bears. Worse, it has corrupted our youth with vegemite and Olivia Newton-John. We must resist with the force of our forbears! Stamp out Wombats before they corrupt our civility and decency and humanitarianism! -- Byron Howes UNC - Chapel Hill (decvax!duke!unc!bch)
amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) (01/16/84)
Byron Howes, who I had always thought was a voice of reason and moderation at North Carolina, has shewn his true colours and is siding with unc!tim on the issue of wombats. However, he also is demonstrating his basic ignorance (if ignorance were cornflakes, he'd be General Mills) by speaking of 20-Metre racing yachts. It's 12-Metre yachts! (You are stupid, Byron, stark, raving stupid!) Now, he will probably attack me with the obviously absurd and fallacious argument that this is an ad hominem arguement. Just remember, O bootlicking lackey of Maroney, that truth is truth, even in Budapest! Gloria in Excelcis vombatida, John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL (312) 979-7293 ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2
bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes ) (01/17/84)
Well! Hobson makes his choice and accuses me of moderation! The mere fact that I stretched 12 meter yachts into 20 meter yachts should be sufficient proof that I am totally immoderate -- especially when it comes to Wombats!! Vile creatures they are, who see the world upside-down. Then he goes further and suggests that I am a bootlicking lackey to Tim Maroney when all who know tim are aware that he wears sandals (Take that! snow-slogging wombat-ridden minions of the Northern Hordes) which are carved from the very heart of wombat hide. He who would use ad-hominum arguements against me might also want to take away my grits! "Wombats, Wombats, Yum! Yum! Yum!" -- The Patriarch of Kzin -- Byron Howes UNC - Chapel Hill (decvax!duke!unc!bch)
amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (01/18/84)
Listen, Howes, I did not accuse you of moderation. You have been so blinded by your illogical and insatiable hatred of wombats that you cannot read (if your brains were dynamite, you couldn't blow your hat off). I had merely thought that you, unlike all others from Chapel Hill--with the probable exception of Bruce Smith--were a reasonable and responsible adult. I admitted that I was wrong and that you were every bit as Satanically inspired as unc!tim. I also take back my description of you as a bootlicking lackey of Maroney. You are instead a sandal-licking lackey. And I hope that your grits have lumps in them (unless, of course, you like thaem that way, in which case I hope they don't!) Ad Majorem Gloriam Vombatidae John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL (312) 979-7293 ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2