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Re: Can you believe this? part 2!

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Nov 20, 2006 7:40AM

> Sounds a lot link "We do not need any ramps, no people in
> wheel chairs come in here" or "We do not need any TTY's no
> deaf people call us"...

In the podunk town I grew up in, there were groups of people that had
tried for decades to get funding for a new school.

One of the not-so-uncommon replies to this (I'm not kidding) was "Why do
we need to build a swimming pool at the new school? We don't have a swim
team."

For a lot of people, that logic makes perfect sense. ;o)

-Darrel