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From: gfm9611@plato.ds.boeing.com (G Frank McCormick)
Subject: Re: Cannot mount root during install?
Message-ID: <D8qKnA.4K6@plato.ds.boeing.com>
Summary: Badgers?  We don't need no stinking badgers.
Organization: Boeing
References: <3ottl6$l7@park.uvsc.edu> <3ov1ba$93e@agate.berkeley.edu> <id.TTXJ1.V5A@nmti.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 18:57:09 GMT
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In article <id.TTXJ1.V5A@nmti.com> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>
> And people wonder why I picture Jordan as this crazed hyperactive toon
> ferret... obviously suffering from a sugar rush...
> 

This is an outrageous and unwarranted characterization of ferrets.
I am shocked -- shocked! -- to find that otherwise sensible people
perpetuate stereotypes and myths concerning these gentle, caring
creatures.  Jordan-as-ferret, indeed.

Hmmph.

Frank McCormick, Assistant Director
U.N. High Commission for Badgers, Ferrets and Weasels