Date:         Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:39:49 -0500
From: Mary Jane Isles <mji@SRMOO.ENGL.SRU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: INT:EmJays:A Complaint?  (was F :EmJays: flag on the play!!!!)xk


Last year's List Cur-smudgeon writes:
>Hey, what's going on??????

I see Bill is finally catching up with the rest
of the class.

>Ok, so the emjays are early this year! Big deal.
>The Queen can call elections anytime she wants. But....

Thank you... my position exactly.  Bowing and scraping
develops character, very good, keep developing character.

>Isn't there supposed to be a reasonable period for the campaign,
>before the voting begins?
>
>In England, there's six weeks between the time elections are
>caleed and the actual polling...
>
>so how can people be voting already???????

So, you're saying that you need more than seven days to make up
your mind?  You're telling us that 168 hours do not suffice for
the weighty thought you deem necessary?  A minimum of 10,080 minutes...
no, no-- 604,800 SECONDS, minimal-- isn't enough time?

Reeeeeeeeeeally?

Well, let me consult with my EmJay co-organizers...
*unidentified group huddles and mumbles, plays Paper, Scissors and Stone*
The decision is in:

Too bad!  :D

>(who just wants some time to dust off his curmudgeonly techniques...  ;)

What a clever bunch of campaigners we have here, eh?

--MJ, simply astonished by the deluge of cleverness  :)

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