Russ writes:

> So, I'm getting old.
>
>  This post sounds crotchetty as heck, and I agree with almost all of it.

And I agree with virtually none of it. Larry's original post is a collection
of one nonsensical statement after another. The same sort of post could have
have been written in the 1600's in England. If it had been, it would read
something like this:

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When we were growing up, we never ate with forks. They are effeminate and
unnecessary utensils introduced into a god-fearing England by the foppish
Roman Italians. "Why should a person need a fork when God had given him
hands?"

And as for the notion that "cleanliness is next to Godliness", that's simple
nonsense. We had dirt floors in our house that we shared with all sorts of
vermin, and we survived didn't we? The idea that the Black Death has
something to do with rats is rat-trap, literally. Rats eat our stores of food
and that's reason enough to exterminate them, but rats don't cause disease.
People have lived with rats since the beginning of time.

And where does it say that a man's worth should be determined by his
education? A person who works by his or her hands and toils in the fields,
under God's great sun, is a far better person than someone who spends his
days in darkened rooms. It's total hogwash that a person who earns his living
by the sweat of his brow lives a significantly shorter life than a thinker.
I'm nearly 45 now and I've lived as long as any nattering nabob at Oxford or
Cambridge that I know.

Nor who says that we must depend on the good graces of the local magistrate
and his henchmen? They're all a bunch of corrupt politicians, in the pockets
of the local wealthy landowners. I was abducted and repeatedly raped when I
was an 11 year-old girl, but I survived the ordeal and am a better person for
it now. I now understand human nature as it really is, and I've learned to
trust no one.

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Wirt Atmar

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