[Ads-l] Injia

[Jonathan Lighter]

Dante, I think.

JL

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:

> For the ignorant, who is "that dead, white, male, European bigot
> from Italy"?  Not Kipling, I assume.
>
> Joel
>
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>       From: W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM>
>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>  Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 12:11 AM
>  Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Injia
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> WG wrote: CD wrote: WB wrote: << that dead, white, male, European bigot
> from Italy >>
> WB writes:  Hold yuh hosses, theah, podnuh! CD got tangled up in the
> thread. So, less snot implicate the kid with the tortures of Torquemada or
> them Injuns off the reservation in Inja, unless'n he's a-hankerin' to! Eh?
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > that dead, white, male, European bigot from Italy
> > >
> >
> > Was just trying to make a buck, W. You can't blame a man for trying! And
> he
> > was probably bigoted - in the modern sense - only against Jews. Since
> that
> > bigotry is one of the cornerstones of Western civilization, taking him to
> > task for that would be hypocritical in the extreme.
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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