[sumo] oshi-dashi'd message

["Christopher J. Basten" <cbasten@statgen.ncsu.edu>]

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From: Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@webtrek.com>
Organization: WebTrek
To: sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu
Subject: [OT] Bruhahaha
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:53:21 -0400

	Please indulge me one observation on this list.  It is not a flame
nor a criticism of the members of the list.

	I am on a number of lists but they all are tech related.  This is
the only list I subscribe to that is not about computers, operating
systems, programming languages and various things related to these.
I used to think that only techies would be inclined to break out
into a flame war over things very esoteric and ethereal like the
concept of tradition.  I have been, to my embarrassment, party to
royal rumbles on such things as naming conventions of file names
and the color of a one pixel image.  I say all of this because it
strikes me how naive I am WRT the world outside of geekdom.  Maybe
I need to get out more.

	Oh, FWIW I can understand the feelings of those who find the
ponytail as being a Bad Thing<tm>.  While I might think it's silly
on a rational level (and what affectation isn't?) the value of
tradition is one thing I have held since birth.  Blame my
Italian-American parents.

-- 
Paradise; can it be all I heard it was?
I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there.

[EndPost by "Christopher J. Basten" <cbasten@statgen.ncsu.edu>]