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Moderate liberal here. (What a surprise. Pretty much means that I can't make up my damn mind I suppose.)
Lars my friend, you are a "Utopian radical mugwump". But I don't see anything wrong with that ;-)
Hmm, you're killing me here LOL! (You too, gilda [g].)
For those of you who are wondering ('cuz I was), from Merriam-Webster Online:
Main Entry: mug7wump
Pronunciation: 'm&g-"w&mp
Function: noun
Etymology: obsolete slang mugwump kingpin, from Massachuset
mugquomp, muggumquomp war leader
Date: 1884
1 : a bolter from the Republican party in 1884
2 : an independent in politics

-- (this.is@test.only), August 17, 2000

Answers

-- Yelli (danielle.sears@mailbox.co.uk), October 12, 2000.

:-)

-- (hoping@this.works), December 01, 2000.

:-)

-- (trying@gain.hope), December 01, 2000.

-- (here@goes.nuthin), December 08, 2000.

-- (once@gain.trying), December 08, 2000.

did this work?

-- (more@test.ing), December 08, 2000.

trying again

-- (even@more.testing), December 08, 2000.

-- (im@g.ine), December 08, 2000.

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How'd that work?

-- (busyday@the.testforum), December 08, 2000.

testing the format
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how'd i do?

-- (busier@the.testforum), December 08, 2000.

There's an excellent site that I use for HTML instruction. It's called Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi.
All the commands are alphabetized, with some of the more frequently asked ones listed on the left side of the page.
Once you've found what you're looking for, practice over here at HTML Test Forum.
You can screw up to your heart's content on that site.
This public service message brought to you by Me.

-- (testing@the.links), December 11, 2000.

There's an excellent site that I use for HTML instruction. It's called Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi.
All the commands are alphabetized, with some of the more frequently asked ones listed on the left side of the page.
Once you've found what you're looking for, practice over here at HTML Test Forum.

-- (one@more.time), December 11, 2000.

Try to "hear" the Brooklyn accent; it makes more sense.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas,
The whole house was mella
Not a creature was stirrin'
'Cus my gun was unner my pilla.
When up on da roof
I heard stompin' around
I sprung to da winda
To scream, "Yo! Keep it down!"
When what to my wonderin'
eyes should appear
But the Don of all elfs
And eight friggin' reindeer!
Wit slicked back black hair
And a red silk suit
Don Nicky was here
Wit a bag fulla loot.
Wit a slap to dere snouts
And a yank on dere manes
He cursed and he shouted
And he called 'em by name
"Yo Tony, Yo Frankie,
Yo Vinny, Yo Vito
Ay Joey, Ay Paulie
Ay Stevie, Ay Guido!"
As I pulled out my piece
And hid by da bed
He flew troo da winda
And slapped da side o' my head.
"What the hella ya doin'?
Pullin' a gun on the Don.
Now alls you get is coal
You friggin' moron!"
Den pointin' his fat friggin' finger
Right unda my nose
He twisted his pinkie ring
And up da chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh,
Obscenities he was screamin'
And away dey all flew
For he troo dem a beatin'.
Den I heard him yell out,
What I least did expect
Merry F*ckin' Christmas to all
Now youse show some respect!

-- (hey@itsda.holidays), December 11, 2000.

Time for some real humor ;-)
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Selection of Carols for Your Dysfunctional Friends
Schizophrenia
Do you Hear What I Hear?
Multiple Personality Disorder
We Three Queens Disoriented Are
Narcissistic
Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me
Manic
Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Street and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Busses and Trucks and Trees and Fire Hydrants and.....
Paranoid
Santa Claus is Coming to Get Me.
Personality Disorder
You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll tell you Why.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock,
Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock,
Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock,
Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock,
Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock,
Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock,
Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock...
(better start again)
Passive-Aggressive Personality
On the First Day of Christmas my True Love Gave to Me (and then took it all away).
Borderline Personality Disorder
Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire

-- (see@it.work), December 18, 2000.

Little Billy came into the kitchen where his mother was making dinner. His birthday was coming up and he thought this was a good time to tell his mother what he wanted. “Mom, I want a bike for my birthday.”
Little Billy was a bit of a trouble-maker. He had gotten into trouble at school and at home. Billy’s mother asked him if he thought he deserved to get a bike for his birthday. Little Billy, of course, thought he did. Billy’s mother, being a Christian woman, wanted Billy to reflect on his behavior over the last year.
“Go to your room, Billy, and think about how you have behaved this year. Then write a letter to God and tell him why you deserve a bike for your birthday.”
Little Billy stomped up the steps to his room and sat down to write God a letter.
Letter 1
Dear God,
I have been a very good boy this year and I would like a red bike.
Your friend, Billy
Billy knew that this wasn’t true. He had not been a very good boy this year, so he tore up the letter and started over.
Letter 2
Dear God,
This is your friend Billy. I have been a good boy this year and I would like a red bike for my birthday.
Thank you.
Your friend, Billy
Billy knew that this wasn’t true either. So, he tore up the letter and started again.
Letter 3
God,
I know I haven’t been a good boy this year. I am very sorry. I will be a good boy if you just send me a bike for my birthday.
Please!
Thank you, Billy
Billy knew, even if it was true, this letter was not going to get him a bike. By now Billy was very upset. He went downstairs and told his mom that he wanted to go to church.
Billy’s mother thought her plan had worked, as Billy looked very sad. “Just be home in time for dinner,” Billy’s mother told him.
Billy walked down the street to the church on the corner. Little Billy went into the church and up to the altar. He looked around to see if anyone was there. Billy bent down and picked up a statue of the Virgin Mary. He slipped it under his shirt and ran out of the church, down the street, into his house, and up to his room. He shut the door to his room and sat down with a piece of paper and a pen. Billy began to write his letter to God.
Letter 5
God, I’VE GOT YOUR MOTHER. IF YOU WANT TO SEE HER AGAIN, SEND THE BIKE.
Signed,
YOU KNOW WHO

-- (hope@this.works), December 18, 2000.

off?

-- (messed@up.again), December 18, 2000.

-- (no_helmet@daytona500.com), February 19, 2001.

No mincing words over a month of crimes

Thursday, March 15, 2001
By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

MARCH HAS BEEN a cruel month.
Images of young black men, connected to some of the more heinous crimes to hit the region in some time, have been seared into our minds in the past two weeks.
Charles Champion Jr., 18, is suspected of killing a Des Moines police officer March 7.
Two days later, Leemah Carneh, 19, allegedly entered a home south of Seattle and killed two teens and an elderly couple.
Then this.
Police now say the men whom they believe killed Kristopher Kime were all black.
Kime was trying to help a young woman being assaulted in Pioneer Square during Mardi Gras when he was beaten.
A pathetic roll call.
It makes me mad. Makes me sad. Makes me want to shake these young men and holler, "What the hell were you thinking?"
Others feel the same way.
"I've been expecting this call," James Kelly, head of the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, said somberly yesterday. "We are going to have to come together and look at the images we are seeing. What is going on?"
So what to do?
"We all have a responsibility to begin some sort of dialogue about this," said a weary Kelly.
"And the African American community will have to sit down and acknowledge and hold accountable the elements in our own community that are engaging in this senseless violence."
Talks are taking place, from informal chats among church, civic and business leaders to water-cooler conversations among workers in downtown offices and people on buses.
On Tuesday evening, Kelly, along with other religious and civic leaders, met with Mayor Paul Schell to look ahead.
Kelly will soon hold conversations with black church leaders to get the community's "house in order." Then, he will reach out to others who are eager to tackle a complex crime problem with roots in economic deprivation, personal irresponsibility and the breakdown of families.
Kelly also plans to convene a Youth Congress next month. The congress would allow young people, between the age of 12 and 18, to connect with professional mentors, attend camps and learn alternatives to violence. Other leaders are taking action, including the Rev. Tony Robinson of Plymouth Congregational Church, who wants to hold a youth forum.
These gestures are much needed.
If it all feels like déjà vu -- it is.
Flash back to what happened after Seattle youths erupted in a violent rampage following the Rodney King verdict in 1992. Beleaguered city leaders pulled out their book of urban bromides and pledged money for summer jobs and other lofty programs to inspire young dreamers.
Today, many of those efforts have withered on the vine.
Any new efforts must be sustained beyond the immediacy of the recent painful crises that have smacked us between the eyes.
Discussions also must be honest.
After Mardi Gras, Seattle city officials were loath to mention the R-word, so smug were they in their cozy cloak of political correctness.
Yes, race was an element in Pioneer Square's melee, but so too were other powerful forces -- youthful debauchery, unbridled misogyny and drunkenness fueled by the very taverns that drew thousands of people to the neighborhood.
Let us not forget the Seattle police. Hundreds of officers, specially trained to handle moblike situations, were on order to hold back. They wanted to step in "more than anything in the world," one officer told me, but could not.
So much blame to go around that people could line up for second helpings.
But healing solutions are what we need, not butt covering.
When people, from police Chief Gil Kerlikowske to Schell to community leaders, sit down they must show all of their cards.
If they don't, others are ready to step up.
Groups that support "European Rights" -- hate groups, some would say -- have turned Mardi Mayhem into their version of Paul Revere's ride.
"The sort of spineless passivity displayed by most of the young white men in Seattle in the face of black violence is far more disturbing than the drunken vandalism I saw some whites engaged in," Dr. William Pierce of the National Alliance, said in a radio address. "White people who are surprised that blacks behaved the way they did in the Fat Tuesday riot clearly aren't prepared to fight."
But Eric Ward, of the Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity, countered by saying: "We should be appalled if we allow people to exploit bigotry that already exists. And the bigots will get away with it if we do not sit down and honestly discuss the complex realities of racism, white supremacy and sexism. All of these are real issues that won't get cloaked in shallow slogans -- 'Tolerate diversity,' 'Can't we all get along?'"
Kelly worries the recent events will make the vast majority of hard-working, law-abiding black people the victims of a community's fears about black crime.
Such fears would be irrational. After the rash of school shootings involving alienated, white teens, did we avoid sending our kids to school?
Now is the time for rational discussions -- not pandering to irrational stereotypes.

P-I columnist Robert Jamieson can be reached at 206-448-8125 or robertjamieson@seattle-pi. com

-- j-3g (0hjif@0ji4.com), March 15, 2001.

-- (sdssasdc@uih.com), August 17, 2001.

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