A Celtic fan in Congress?



keltsfan keltsfan at comcast.net
Thu Jul 20 19:48:00 CDT 2006


But aren't the major religions of the world: Christianity, Buddhism,
Hinduism, Judaism, Islam and Celticsism, with the latter being the most
widely practiced? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com 
> [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On Behalf Of Steve Ouellette
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:58 PM
> To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
> Subject: Re: A Celtic fan in Congress?
> 
> We already get enough arguments over basketball ... if we 
> start to open up the gates to politics and, say, religion, 
> the list could quickly become unbearable. I enjoy and welcome 
> his Celtics contributions, but the line has to be drawn 
> somewhere. What happens when I ask members to join my 
> "Impeach Bush" pool party or donate to Planned Parenthood?
> 
> Steve O
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Eric Albert <Eric at ericalbert.net> wrote: 
> > 
> > >No offense, but I think soliciting for a political 
> campaign is way out of line for this list.
> > >
> > >Steve O
> > 
> > I respectfully disagree.  It's certainly off-topic, and I 
> think it's 
> > great how this list manages to stay so on-topic.
> > 
> > But the poster *is* a real Celtics fan who's posted a bunch 
> of on-topic messages.
> > In my mind, that gives him leeway to post a personal 
> message every couple of years.
> > I like hearing what people are doing in their outside 
> lives, and that 
> > includes politics and business.  If regular posters posted 
> about this 
> > kind of stuff *occasionally*, it wouldn't overburden the list.
> > 
> > I don't have strong feelings about this, though, and I have 
> liked how 
> > this list is all-basketball, all the time.
> > 
> > -- Eric
> > 
> > P.S.  I thought dragging in Red Auerbach was clever.
> > 
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