FIRE Matt Bruce for Harvard Forgery!

[Rachel Meredith Kadel]

Newsgroups deboursified. (what is pgh.org, anyway?)
In article <4kirkg$7...@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
Dr. Zando <za...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>In <DpIzA...@world.std.com> bou...@world.std.com (Stephen Boursy)
>writes:
>>
>>>: Concerned users should contact Harvard University directly about
>>>: the forgery of Matt Bruce.
>>>
>>>: What Bruce is doing is forging the email addresses of other users
>>>: to cancel their articles. He belongs in jail and most certainly
>has
>>>: no place at Harvard University.
>>>
>Fire the bastard for the forgery.
>
Um. (a) He hasn't forged *anything*. Things have been forged in his
name, but he hasn't forged anything. (b) If he had cancelled the posts
he considered cancelling, it probably wouldn't have been illegal. (c) If
he had cancelled those posts, and the cancellations had been illegal
(note the *2* contrafactual hypotheticals, whee long words!), they would
have broken only civil and not criminal laws, and therefore he *still*
wouldn't "belong in jail". (d) Harvard can't fire him because Harvard
never hired him.

Rachel

"That leaves: shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker mother-fucker and tits (you
have to say it with *rhythm*). We could all just add these to our .sigs."
- Marco Simons on net censorship

[Justin Burk]

Rachel Meredith Kadel <rka...@fas.HARVARD.EDU> wrote:
>(d) Harvard can't fire him because Harvard
>never hired him.

Fire used to be used as a synonym for expell, back in the 20's as least.
(At least it was in the 20's era play _Good News_ (was that the name of
it? I can't even remember now (do I nest my parenthetical statements too
deep? (they make perfect sense to me))) that I was in in the eighth
grade.) In any case the word may have been used later as well.