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"D F J Wood" <D.F.J.Wood@newcastle.ac.uk>
    RE: <nettime> We Plebeians

"D F J Wood" <D.F.J.Wood@newcastle.ac.uk>
    Subject: Sarcasm...


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From: "D F J Wood" <D.F.J.Wood@newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: <nettime> We Plebeians

> We Plebeians

What is the point in writing a statement about the poor powerless
majority rising up in such elitist archaic terms... Or am I missing the
point? I am just so bored of scholarly manifestoes... 

David.

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From: "D F J Wood" <D.F.J.Wood@newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: Sarcasm...

> That's the ticket!  I'll do that now too!  Maybe I'll turn 
> Saddam into a
> Teletubby and the region will sprout pink and powder-blue 
> peace poppies.
> We can all get zorched on Tariq Aziz's love hookah and turn Evil Bush
> into a smurf with our focused cuddle energy.

That's right - because there's only one solution, you're either for us
or against us, and somehow if you're neither you must be just some mad
drugged-out hippy.

It's all so clear now. I though international politics was complex, how
stupid I was!

David.

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