Klarinet Archive - Posting 000741.txt from 2002/11

From: "WILLIAM SEMPLE" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re Tony Pay's comments
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:59:29 -0500

Would that be Lyon Park or Lyon Village, per chance?

>From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: Klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Re Tony Pay's comments
>Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:20:08 EST
>
>Patricia Smith wrote,
> >Though I don't know either of them, for some reason,
> >I did know Tony's remarks were in humor. Perhaps it
> >is because I have a bit more familiarity with that style
> >of humor - I'm not sure. I just knew...
>
>I thought the remark surely must be meant as humor, but I also thought it
>was
>better to ask than to guess. I live in a multi-national Northern Virginia
>neighborhood, near the Pentagon, just outside of Washington, D. C. My
>husband works in a frequently-threatened, frequently-evacuated Federal
>Government complex, two blocks from the White House. I could go on for
>many
>off-topic pages of reasons why, like a lot of people who live around here,
>I
>know it's dangerous to assume that someone who utters extremist-sounding,
>anti-American remarks doesn't really mean anything by them. We're a mite
>jumpy in this neighborhood.
>
>However, I completely accept Tony's explanation and apology -- and,
>Patricia,
>I like your sensible response much better than the smug, "Gotcha!" reaction
>of one or two other people who seem over-eager to find fault with Tony and
>who have made way too big a deal out of a minor incident, IMHO.
>
>Lelia
>
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