From:	Mark A Shieh SHODAN+@***.EDU
Subject:	the value of education (OT-rant, long)
Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:51:14 -0400 (EDT)

"Robert Watkins" <robert.watkins@******.com> writes:
> And THAT's the very point that I made that started this whole argument. :)

My ability to remember more than a couple posts back drops
rapidly when I participate in a discussion during compiles. :)

> I said: Chinese people had all the weapons taken away. That's why they
> invented chopsticks and martial arts. :)

It might be why chopsticks showed up, but I'm convinced that
they would have stuck around after being invented even if people had
been given their knives back.

> The argument then started as to what chopsticks had to do with anything. :)

Why, chopsticks make the world go 'round. You're like SO
unenlightened. Can't you read a subject header?

Mark