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(...) There are special newsgroups devoted to this, ah...subject. ;-) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Is irrational necessary as a modifier here? I guess I'm having a hard time coming up with a reason to have a *rational* fear of a person based solely on their sexual preference. But then, I can tolerate just about anything except intolerance. (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, you don't expect the liberals to throw it around conservatively, do you? :) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I would disagree with your "PC definition". The terms homophobic, homophobia and homophobe are used to describe those who have (as your quoted definition stated) an irrational fear.... that is, they feel threatened by the presence or even (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Carbon 60 <carbon60@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:37360D55.36235A...oot.com... (...) internet (...) too (...) define (...) You asked-- Merriam Webster's Deluxe Dictionary, 10th collegiate edition), 1998: 1Slang: (n., origin unknown, first (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Carbon 60 <carbon60@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:37360AF0.C529D8...oot.com... (...) I think the reference is to wolves pecking order. When the alpha male (or any other male) is challenged for rank, the fight is rarely deadly. When one wolf (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well it is isn't it? If a word has a different meaning than you said that's a mis-meaning, surely... If you thought professeur (French) means professor you'll be wrong as it means teacher a mis-meaning. (...) Slang is good among people you (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Please elaborate on this. How do you know this? (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) OK. (...) I'll have to check the particular Terms and Conditions for off-topic.debate but I thought they were the same. Some people therefore will be breaking LUGNET rules. (...) Acknowledged but some law somewhere won't like it. (...) Well I (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh dear... (...) Well they are words too but not in this case. (...) Well homophobia is in regular use everywhere - I wouldn't call that slang. (...) I know that - homo also means man according to Mr Stanley - so it could be fear of men. This (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, my hip factor is a little low, so I may have misinterpreted it, but from the context it seemed to mean they were being well compensated for the work they were doing. (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Isn't "making bank" usually planning on, predicting, betting on? Steve (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, imo, since "homophobic" is a slang term, and one intended primarily to demonize another group of people (ones who, in many cases, deserve to be demonized, to be sure), I don't think that a mostly literal interpretation of the (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Rats, under the right conditions (overcrowding). Baboons, sometimes (but it's more a dominance/pecking-order thing, IIRC). Steve (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think I did. (...) That was certainly very nice of you. (...) huh? I've never heard of a PC using a two-character suffix for *any* file. Not even after win95 introduced "variable lenght" filenames. eric (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 5 May 1999 20:55:17 GMT, Jeff Stembel uttered the following profundities... (...) I would have at first suggested the possibility that I had received the spam while on AOL was due to being on the UK version of AOL. Not likely, though, as it (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wolves, as well as most other varieties of canine. James (URL) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One species Chimpanzees comes to mind first(1). I know there are others, I just can't think of them at the moment. :) Jeff 1 - Besides humans, of course. (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Good. (...) You mean like humans? (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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[moved to off-topic.debate] (...) What treatment areare you talking about? Is it medical, i.e. involving only drugs and procedures(surgery, etc.)? If it involves cultural (therapy, religion) treatments, it is not a medical illness. If it involves (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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