Re: Wade's last week's phrase of the day...

From: Chris Taylor (Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 13:52:57 GMT

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Lawrence DeBivort wrote:

>
>>I think this is a clever con - take a nice middle class kid (raised for
>>years 'on the farm') and dump it in a room full of drugs booze and eager
>>members of the opposite sex for a bit and I bet 85% (the return rate)
>>turns out to be the chance they'll get badly burned by the experience of
>>'freedom'. "Gee take me back to the simple (if slightly dull) life that
>>I understand and am not afraid of, so I can rationalise my avoidance of
>>*that* scary nightmare that wasn't half as much fun close up"...
>>
>
> Chris, I'm afraid the programme you watched was long on fantasy and short on
> facts. Where in the world did you see this???

Huh? I was just responding to someone else's post...

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