[Peace-discuss] New Draft

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think it was George Carlin years ago who criticized saying that someone
was "in the service" when the military was meant. "'Service' is an odd
word for killing people," said Carlin.  --CGE


On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Ken Urban wrote:

> Actually DOS has been given a new life, as DoS, Denial of Service ...
> seems apropos.
> 
> >>> "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> 4/6/2004 6:06:39
> PM >>>
> 
> Wasn't it clever of me to study dead languages -- Latin, Greek, and
> DOS?
> 
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Ken Urban wrote:
> 
> > I liked the "skills" they were looking for ... Computer Scientists
> and
> > Linguists ... as I'm the former and my partner is the latter.  I
> don't
> > think a skills draft will improve enrollment in my courses. Of
> course,
> > if they get *really* desperate, Gina & I might be cruisin' in a
> Humvee
> > with Noam :-)
> > 
> > 
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