[LMB] OT: request

B. Ross Ashley redlion at sff.net
Mon Sep 4 04:41:26 BST 2006


On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 21:33:46 -0400 (EDT), James Nicoll 
<jdnicoll at panix.com> wrote:
 > On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, B. Ross Ashley wrote:
 > > At any rate: It's probably too much fun drawing lines in the sand 
to make
 > > anybody stop, but I am reminded of the long-ago division between 
pro- and
 > > anti- Viet Nam war sf writers. Only over something a lot less 
consequential,
 > > although appalling in its own right.
 > >
 >  	That's very weird: that ad has come up something like four
 > times in the places I hang out in the last month or so. What are
 > the odds that something from two generations ago in a magazine
 > that died a generation and a half ago? I understand the relevence
 > but am surprised people remember.

Heh, I'm just turned 60, and although born in the States have lived in 
Canada since 1968. Try to make me forget.

 > 	I don't really understand the people on the other side of
 > the line, to be honest, at least the ones not in the He-man
 > Woman-haters Club*. Who thinks it is appropriate in the 21st
 > century to boob grab without permission?

Not I, and, let me assure you, not Sanders.
-- 
B. Ross Ashley
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