OFF: Ted Nugent - this ones for Mike

[michael blackman]

Ditto

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: Ted Nugent - this ones for Mike


> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, M Holmes wrote:
>
> => Unsurprisingly, after the Dunblane gun ban in the UK, gun crimes
> => increased after the ban. The Home Office has since denied that the
> => reason for the ban was to reduce gun crime, though it didn't tell us
> => what the point of the ban could possibly otherwise be.
>
> You mean you haven't figured it out, yet?  The Home Office enacted the
> ban because it figured the off-topic traffic was a wee bit on the low
> side on BOC-L.  They reckoned that a gun ban was guaranteed to generate
> a lot of useless, waste-of-bandwidth threads and postings that never
> amount to anything new or interesting (just like this one).
>
> I think it has worked admirably!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>