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Hello Mike - 

MR> --- on the topic of "Columbia's 'computers'" 

MR>> I was under the impression you don't approve of burning
MR>> books? Geez, don't tell me you get a rush watching a goose
MR>> stepping parade? 

CA>> You obviously are not familiar with the burning of the
CA>> library at Alexandria. 

MR> And you can't tell a euphemism from your elbow... 

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Euphemism: Eu"phe*mism (?), n. [Gr. fr. to use word of a good
omen; well + to speak: cf. F. euphémisme. See Fame.] (Rhet.) A
figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is
softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an
inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable. 

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Since your references to goose stepping and book burning are
offensive they are not, as you claim them to be, euphemisms but
rather additional insults.

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CA>> In any classical sense of a 'history major', no. I care
CA>> about things that happened long ago, a short time ago,
CA>> yesterday, today, and tommorrow. I don't think of it as
CA>> 'history'. 

MR> Then what do you call it... tensor math? 

I call it life.

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