From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:04:01 -0800 (PST)
To: "John Young" <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: BATFC -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and   Cryptography
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On 3/10/98 10:45 PM, John Young (jya@pipeline.com)  passed this wisdom:

>Brian Riley wrote:
>>On 3/10/98 7:22 AM, John Young (jya@pipeline.com)  passed this wisdom:
>
>> John, would you really refer to Janet Reno as a 'charming weirdo'???? I 
>>can think of lost of names, epithets, and descriptions, but that surely 
>>would be far down my list.
>
>Brian, that post was a feeble one-time attempt to write straight prose, 
>uninflected, unaccusatory, undiabolical, un-nuts, un-understandable. 
>
>It took days of agony to arrive at empty perfection, to say nothing with 
>crystal clear aplomb, foreign policy piquant, transparent balderdash 
>cover-up of bald-face lies delivered deadpan grammatically.
>
>I been studying James Rubin's disarmingly weird repartee at the State 
>Department press conferences. Today he asked a reporter to define 
>"who's got the con"  for foreign policy. (Laughter, the transcript hooted.)
>
>"Charming weirdo" is the Secretary of State's and Rubin's demonic 
>auto-epithet for her, emulating homicidal Maggie Thatcher hiding her 
>demure will to slaughter.
>
>Swear to god this is the last time I'll try to ape well-mannered civil 
>discourse. You got the con: It's too sicko wacko. Back to incoherent 
>snarl of ignorant brutes chewing leg off for freedom.

ROFLAAMAIBGFOT37thFOAOBDTADW:  rollin on floor laffing almost as
much as if Bill Gates fell out the 37th floor of an office building due
to a defective window.