Re: The "prison IS university" metaphor - a review

Molly Mockford wrote:
> At 18:42:17 on Tue, 18 Mar 2008, tony cooper
> <tony_cooper213@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> <4kf0u3tv1r91ocuvuuasjomc5chi4a6lff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> You're new here, aren't you?  The Democrat/Democratic Party thing was
>> a thread topic.
>
>> I'm not going to have a go at it because it was well-covered here
>> earlier.
>>
>> As far as folk understanding me, I suspect that 90% of the people who
>> read my post understood exactly what I meant and knew the reference.
>
>> If you don't choose to learn and adapt, that's your prerogative. But,
if 
>> not, why bother participating in this group?
>
>> I suggest a McVities digestive.  Also, consider not trying to be too
>> clever until you get a feel of the group.
>
> Have you forgotten that this thread is cross-posted between ucle and
> aue?  Just because a topic may have been covered in aue doesn't mean
> that we in ucle know anything about its contents, or even its
> existence - we're good, but we're not telepathic.

More exactly: we're as telepathic as we need to be :-)
-- 
John Briggs