1996-09-27 - Re: Is “Black Unicorn” a lawyer, or just a nym used by a lawyer?

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From: “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@got.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-09-27 08:14:40 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:14:40 +0800

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From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:14:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Is "Black Unicorn" a lawyer, or just a nym used by a lawyer?
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At 5:17 PM -0700 9/26/96, Bill Stewart wrote:

>Tim's signature file no longer asserts that he's a Licensed Ontologist,
>but this seems to be the kind of question you'd ask a L.O. if you knew one.
>

Yeah, I got some "What's an ontologist?" questions. One person I told to
look it up in a dictionary. Then he came back with a "OK, so I looked it
up. Why's a license needed?"

(I also got two responses asking why I was talking about cancer.)

--Tim


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