Re: OT: alien-ness portrayals; was Re: I'm new!
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 22, 2000, 20:33 |
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > If
> > someone explained them historically, or just told me what was going on
> > without this obviousness assumption, I would feel a lot less panicked
> > about the whole situation.
>
> The people of this list are as likely as any group on Earth to know the
> answers to such questions.
Unfortunately, the people on this list aren't around when I get myself
into trouble and need to figure something out fast! <wry look> The
whole taboo against asking a woman's age, frex. I ran afoul of that one
in 5th grade though I hadn't even conceived that something that random
(to me) could be off-limits.
YHL