At 12:45 PM -0800 3/12/01, Alan Olsen wrote:
Frank Zappa used the term "Drool Britania" to describe the government in the UK.
I think he was right.
Next thing you know, it will be considered assault to hold your finger like a gun and say "bang". (If it is not already.)
Kids have been detained and expelled from schools for doing precisely this. "Zero tolerance." (Check new archives if interested...this was within the past several months.) And I believe some gang banger types were busted for doing this in the direction of a cop in L.A. But maybe this was just in a movie, which reality is increasingly resembling. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns