Muppets (was Re: BK on Identity)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>At 09:10 AM 3/7/01 -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>Kelley says:
>>
>>>>CB: If you can find some like minded people locally,  thinking 
>>>>about it together might help with the problem, and might make the 
>>>>frustration more bearable. However,  I don't know that I have 
>>>>special skills in overcoming the brainwashing dished out by the 
>>>>monopoly media/education system for about the last 20 years.
>>>>
>>>>What are the people you talk to saying as a response to what you say ?
>>>
>>>firstly, i encounter this on lists mainly.  the people i 
>>>encounter, here, are black, mostly.  although that doesn't mean 
>>>anything b/c my neighbor denies that there is any such things as 
>>>driving while black.  secondly, lbo-talk is where i find 
>>>like-minded people -- at least more lefty minded than most people 
>>>around here.  i didn't think you had special skills per se, only 
>>>that we often talk about racism and you mentioned educating 
>>>people, so i was asking.  that's it.
>>
>>At 6:30 AM -0500 3/7/01, Michael Pollak wrote:
>>>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 06:30:55 -0500 (EST)
>>>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>>>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>>>Subject: Re: Horowitz/Reparations for slavery
>>>
>>>On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Daniel Davies wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Just for the record, I'm a muppet.
>>>
>>>That's the great thing about the internet.  Nobody can tell.
>>>
>>>Michael
>>
>>Yoshie
>
>yoshie, could you explain what you're talking about?

I treat nameless characters in anecdotes exchanged on e-lists as 
"muppets."  I'm not against muppets, however, if they are used well.

Yoshie