Herodotus.  But it loses a lot of its punch when it's removed from its
original Doric-Lacedaemonian.

- Mike V.

On 3/12/07, Ross Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Best line of this thread IMHO:

[Mike V. wrote}

"If you hear quacking, you look for a duck.  You don't look for a gerbil
with a gift for avian mimicry."

I've been googling like billy-o to find out whether that line about a
gerbil is original with Mike V. or if he lifted it from the classics....

On 3/12/07, Elliot M. Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You could explain why the state store should move, if you were a patron.
>
> Elliot
>
> On 12 Mar 2007, at 18:01, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN wrote:
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> > Mike V. wrote:
> >
> >>     MLamond writes:
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> >
> >>     Al Krigman wrote:
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> > can anyone here explain why the liquor store is moving in the first
> > place?
> >
> > I think it's odd that the debate about this is being framed in
> > terms of a religious group on one side and a 'separate but equal'
> > mindset on the other, especially when none of us here has explained
> > what the reasons are for this move in the first place -- in a way
> > that would reasonably inform what the costs/benefits would be,
> > equally, for EVERYONE living here (not just for some of the out-of-
> > towners or last-minute byob'ers or nearby students).
> >
> > why aren't we neighbors discussing alternatives for either the
> > present location or the proposed location? is this move so
> > important, so cast in stone, so clearly the only available option?
> >
> >
> > ..................
> > UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
> > [aka laserbeam(r)]
> > [aka ray]
> > SERIAL LIAR. CALL FOR RATES.
> > also, what's happened with two goodfellahs on 41st and walnut? it
> > appears vacant.
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