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echo: aust_ads
to: David Drummond
from: Russell Stapleton
date: 1996-04-16 11:57:34
subject: My bbs

David -


 HT>>>> B.  How do you know he's a parasite, or is that an 
 HT>>>> unfounded opinion?

 DD>>> It is based on his admission that he receives the dole.  He 
 DD>>> lives on public funding.

 RS>> Therefore, according to your logic, every recipient of 
 RS>> unemployment benefits is a parasite? 

 DD> pretty much . . .

 RS>> Please give me your definition of "parasite".

 DD> "plant or animal living in or on another and drawing nutriment
from it"

More or less a textbook answer, covers just about everybody/thing;
I suppose I should have looked in my dictionary first. 8^)

I was under the misapprehension that (as the term is usually used
in a disparaging way) you were actually suggesting how  (he of
the original post) should/not spend his money. But you wouldn't be
doing that now, David, would you?


Cheers...

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