Subj : Re: Ethics test
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : TNW7Z7Z7Z12345
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 17:11:22

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Finnigann wrote:
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>   To: TNW7Z7Z7Z12345
> -=> TNW7Z7Z7Z12345 wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=-
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>  TN> From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape
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>  >  Ni> You keep using the phrase "frat-boy".  Is there something in
>  >  Ni> particular about this that bothers you?  I was never in a fraternity
>  >  Ni> but a lot of my friends were.  They were still pretty regular guys.
>  >
>  > The problem is, He STILL acts like a frat boy. I have seen the video of him
>  > flipping off someone (not on camera) and laughing about it. Presidential,
> not!
> 
>  TN> I was in college long ago when fraternities were still fairly strong,
>  TN> and I knew lots of nice people in them.  The term "Frat-boy" was
>  TN> typically reserved for individuals who were big partiers, not academic,
>  TN> and who were crude and destructive (to property) when drunk.  And they
>  TN> often treated women poorly, except for the one they finally married.
> 
>  TN> So in the case of Dubya, I don't think it's membership in a fraternity
>  TN> that earned him the name.  It was/is his real or imagined behavior.
> 
> Are yo saying 'w' took down the respect level of the term 'Frat-boy' ?

LOL!

Well, in truth, it always had a negative connotation.

But I might've missed something -- sometimes the term implied preppiness
as well. But that really applied only to fraternities with membership
restricted to a certain social class (something that still existed in
the 1960's and early'70's, but you probably wouldn't see today).

- TNW

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