[lbo-talk] Minority Report (was Southern vs. Northern violence)

[Carl Remick]

>From: Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net>
>
>... As a long-transplanted Southerner, I still find myself bristling at
>Northerners' tone of voice, and even their body language ...
>The Ozone Park mentality is quite different. I don't understand it from the
>inside, being an alien and all, but I think it may be just the reverse.
>Politeness consists in pretending that nobody farted. You keep talking as 
>if
>there were no elephant in the room. Would you like another spiced rum? Is
>that a pit bull? ...


>From: "W. Kiernan" <wkiernan at gmail.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>  >
>  > I, a transplanted Massachusetts native, have
>  > lived on Long Island now for well over twenty
>  > years and haven't made a single friend here
>  > in all that time.
>
>Aw man, aren't we your friends?

Well yes, but this is cyberspace where all things are possible.  It's a lot 
more complicated in the 3-D world where, as Michael notes, there are 
elephants in the room farting, requesting spiced rum, trying to pass as pit 
bulls, and otherwise impeding communication and understanding.

Carl

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