On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:48:06 -0400, Bill DeWitt wrote:
>        Now I've got Breyer's Yogurt all over my monitor! Just when I was
>going to type a witty and telling rejoinder about the value of a
>mathematical mind being devalued in an age of Grade 8 reading level masses
>of Astrology following minions of the Orwellian Newspeak driven media...

Sorry about your monitor.  Really.  But I think Grade 8 is exaggerating a
bit, don't you?  That's far above average.

>    But now that I've been branded illiterate (and we all know how

Where did I say you rule? :)

>painful -that- can be), I'll just have to say, "doy huh! I better go buys me
>some lottery tickets befo them puters all get a y2k virus an I has to hide
>up in the cellar wid my rifle and my cusins"

Ah, yes.  The lottery.  "Ya gotta play to win!"  Because of the lottery 
(aka tax on people who can't do math) my taxes are lower.  I feel like
a winner.  I'd say you have to play to lose, really.

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