This is NOT funny.  Please stop the swearing and the ridiculing of list
members who are (imho rightfully) offended by the language chosen.
Thank You.
Matthias Reinhold
BTW: '87 GL Wolfsburg

-----Original Message-----
From: Ari Ollikainen [mailto:Ari@OLTECO.COM]
Sent: Friday, July 31, 1998 13:36
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Offensive Language (F)

At 11:27 PM 7/30/98, William Lund wrote:
>Someone wrote:
>$40,000 for that EV (endangered ((species))vehicle)!!!??..... Jesus
>Christ!!!!!! With that much money I would rather plunk on a good used
Vanagon,
>
>Do we really need to use someone name as a swear word on the list??

        For the love of Mike[*]!

        Repeat after me:

        Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt
me...
        sticks and stones ...
>
>This is offensive to me and I think a lot of other folks out there.
>

       [*] Just a figure of speech :-)

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