[net.origins] .44 automag

lew@ihlpa.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.) (04/03/85)

Ernest Hua referred to "the Duane Gish I would love to mutilate with a
.44 automag"

I had already considered posting or mailing a note to Ernest Hua urging
him to be a little less strident, but this goes way beyond even that level of
invective.

It's no use protesting that it was meant lightheartedly.  To consider such
a threat as a joke only shows how deeply ingrained the feeling is that
generated it.

I have a self-serving motive in wanting to distance myself from this sort
thing, but I would also urge Ernest and anyone else who finds themselves
harboring such frightful feelings to realize that the bonds that bind us
are stronger than these airy doctrinal disputes.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihlpa!lew

jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) (04/04/85)

> Ernest Hua referred to "the Duane Gish I would love to mutilate with a
> .44 automag"
> 
> I had already considered posting or mailing a note to Ernest Hua urging
> him to be a little less strident, but this goes way beyond even that level of
> invective.   [Lew Mammel]

Although I oppose Gishes ideas just as Ernest does,  I think the above
remark is disgusting and uncalled-for even if it was intended to be a joke.
-- 

Yosi Hoshen, Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois, (312)-979-7321, Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jho

ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) (04/05/85)

> Ernest Hua referred to "the Duane Gish I would love to mutilate with a
> .44 automag"
> 
> I have a self-serving motive in wanting to distance myself from this sort
> thing, but I would also urge Ernest and anyone else who finds themselves
> harboring such frightful feelings to realize that the bonds that bind us
> are stronger than these airy doctrinal disputes.

Amen to this!  Let's remember that there is a finite probability
that they are right and we are wrong.

-- 

Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD
UUCP: {hplabs,nbires,brl-bmd,seismo,menlo70,stcvax}!hao!ward
ARPA: hplabs!hao!ward@Berkeley
BELL: 303-497-1252
USPS: POB 3000, Boulder, CO  80307

dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (04/06/85)

>> Ernest Hua referred to "the Duane Gish I would love to mutilate with a
>> .44 automag"
>> 
>> I have a self-serving motive in wanting to distance myself from this sort
>> thing, but I would also urge Ernest and anyone else who finds themselves
>> harboring such frightful feelings to realize that the bonds that bind us
>> are stronger than these airy doctrinal disputes.
> 
> Amen to this!  Let's remember that there is a finite probability
> that they are right and we are wrong.

Of course, zero is a finite number!
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Paul DuBois	{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois        --+--
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"You're a slave either way."                                        |