pardon this, codger!

[Pafra & Scott Catledge]

Sorry, you did not achieve your goal; I feel only pity for persons with the
social graces of a small bad boy who uses such language in a desperate
attempt to get attention.
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> So the listeners get pissed.
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> *****in reply to:
> Why not?  What possible rationalization could one possibly make?
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: <RonButters at AOL.COM>
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> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 7:06 PM
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> Subject: Re: pardon this, codger!
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> > In a message dated 10/6/1999 3:35:28 PM, scplc at GS.VERIO.NET writes:
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> > << Would you characterize those who are seemingly unable to express
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> themselves
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> > without obscenities as either deliberately offensive or merely suffering
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> > from an exteme paucity of vocabulary? >>
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> > not necessarily either one