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SF Joe-
Boy, are we sorry.
Sorry first about your cigar cutter. That must be a real heartbreaker, and to have it taken by some minimum wage person. Gee!
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Thanks, MT, I appreciate your sympathy. Tell you what--you take my old cigar cutter, and I'll take your choice of: a full wine bottle, a laptop computer, or a heavy, expensive, upper class-type shoe unconfiscated by the demotic guys at security, and we'll go at it in an airline aisle. Let's see how much use you make of the cigar cutter.
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Sorry that on September 12 they didn't have an iron-clad new security system that would ferret out the risk and not inconvenience you and me.
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Likewise.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I'm sure the most sorry are the widows, widowers and orphans of the Sept 11 attacks, who would give up ciagr cutters and just about anything else to try-not assure because life has no assurances-but just try, to avoid another loss of life.
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I lost some friends, but at least they didn't have to confront your smug piety, and I don't intend to introduce them further into our conversation.
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Sorry you were put out.
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Thanks again. Me, too. I'm particularly sorry that I'm put out to an obviously idiotic point. I'm put out that my government figures that I'm dumb enough to believe that if they're inconveniencing me and making me stand in some long lines, they are also making me safe. If they were inconveniencing me to some point, I could take it. It's the insult that they think I'm stupid enough, or that the person behind me in line is stupid enough to believe that taking away nail clippers, cigar cutters, and other objects that couldn't be made into a weapon more potent than bare hands will actually do diddly to affect some future event. That's what gets me down.
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[This message has been edited by SFJoe (edited 12-02-2001).]