Insults (was: PBS show)

jonathon grafolog at netcom.com
Fri Jun 14 02:28:59 PDT 1996


	Simon:

On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Simon Spero wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
> > At 10:26 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
> > >I personally despise the term "nerd," but I won't get into that here.
> > >(Except to say that "nerds," "geeks," and "dweebs" are terms of insult,
> > IMHO the best way to deal with an insult is to make it a badge of pride. 
> Geek Pride! Yes! Time to start Hacked-Up!
> "We're Freaks! We're Geeks! We've got RSA, Get Used To It"

	Note in passing that both "Baptist" and "Mormon" were 
	originally terms of insult heaped on members of those
	respective faiths.  

        xan

        jonathon
        grafolog at netcom.com



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