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[charles day]

Bill Vermillion wrote:

>>On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:49:15AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
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>>>And in this day of where the world seems more concernced with
>>>finger-pointing than anything else - you don't want to say anything
>>>you could take the wrong way.
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>>I disagree, entire.
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>>If someone thinks I said something basty, or bad, or that they think I
>>shouldn't have, they can damn well ask me if that's what I meant.  And
>>if they choose not to, and to think ill of me instead, they *they*
>>lose.  Not me.
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>>Political Correctness Isn't.
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>It's not PC but saying something that can be interpreted by someone
>else incorrectly.
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>I used to work in a highly-regulated industry and if someone said
>"Bill got paid to say that" the next thing I'd know there would
>be federal investigators checking to see if it were true.
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>It's not PC to not use the word 'bomb' if you are in an aircraft,
>nor wave to you friend Jack a few seats away and say "Hi Jack".
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Exactly the reason I call my grandson Bill, instead of by his name, Jack.

Charles Day