OFF: BOC & Olympics, now Jesse Helms

[Bryan Irby]

> > > Why is he a political nightmare to the South?  Are Allen's political views
> > > pretty liberal?
> >
> >
> > And speaking as a "Johnny Reb", be careful whom you stereotype as non-
> > liberal.  I was born in NC and have lived below the Mason-Dixon line most
>
> > Of course, despite all that, I still can't explain how Jesse Helms has
>
> My boss [see above] used to babysit his kids!  I swear!  And house
> sit for him.  Her old man was in the service, and they were stationed
> in Jesse's neck of the woods.  They were neighbors, can ya believe it?
>
> Sorry for pissing you off!  Too heavy-handed in my humor that time.
> Didn't mean to hurt your feelings.
> theo

For the record, this neither hurt my feelings nor pissed me off.  Didn't
mean to come across that way.  I don't get offended by language, and don't
buy into this PC bizness, so really, it's not an issue.  I guess I just
felt like defending the south for some reason, though I probably have no more
personal allegiance to southern people than I do to the astronomical
community, for instance.

As for Jesse Helms, well, my old roommates in Chapel Hill and I came very close
to mailing him, COD, an old toilet that was removed from our house, perhaps
filled with something unpleasant to show him our support of the "preverted
arts"...  It's what Frank Zappa would have wanted us to do, isn't it...?

-Bryan