correcting typo RE: col49 2 pt2

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 10 10:08:26 CDT 2001


You are trying very hard to hold on to an untenable position.  I'd say if it 
was in a Dragnet episode it was pretty common knowledge.

>From: Tim Strzechowski
>
>And a good question it is, David.  But you *are* qualifying common
>knowledge with "relatively," and that's the point.  One can post list
>after list of various and sundry articles and books written on the
>subject of LSD prior to the Summer of Love (which I don't contest were
>in existence), but "common knowledge" presupposes that a substantial
>amount of average American citizens read those publications and
>understood those publications to be fluent in the terminology, the
>issues, etc. -- thus making it "common knowledge."

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