From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-06-14 09:30:35 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 17:30:35 +0800
From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 17:30:35 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Insults (was: PBS show)
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On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Simon Spero wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
>
> > At 10:26 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
> > >I personally despise the term "nerd," but I won't get into that here.
> > >(Except to say that "nerds," "geeks," and "dweebs" are terms of insult, and
>
> > IMHO the best way to deal with an insult is to make it a badge of pride.
>
> Geek Pride! Yes! Time to start Hacked-Up!
>
> "We're Freaks! We're Geeks! We've got RSA, Get Used To It"
We're freaks, we're geeks, we've got your data and we're not
afraid to use it?
Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@crash.suba.com
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