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Re: Suitable Names

To: "ozbird" <>
Subject: Re: Suitable Names
From: "Susan Myers" <>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 11:53:28 +1100

> Interesting point.  However, if you were to refer to Italians/Greeks as
> "wops" and/ or to indiginous Australian as "coons," "abos," etc ... you'd
be
> in HEAPS of bother.  Yet "Poms" is somehow accepted as beng different. 
It's
> okay to use derogatory terms in this case.
Don't you dare call me a Skip or I'll really spit the dummy.........

Susan Myers
phone: +61 3 9819 2539
Email:Susan Myers 

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