[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.
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B. Ross Ashley
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