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To: steplock
It is an urban legend. Here you go:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/practice.htm

At least it said it was written by "Jim Childress" instead of George Carlin!

6 posted on 01/29/2003 9:32:51 AM PST by JennysCool
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To: JennysCool
Hmm.. I did a scan on Jim Neugent and got this from Snopes:

Claim: A viewer received an insulting response after sending a complaint to ABC's web site about the TV program 'The Practice.'
Status: True.
Origins: Why this one has reared its ugly head again, a full year after the fact, is beyond our ken. Yes, it's essentially true, but it all took place back in April of 1999, when an Arkansas viewer by the name of Jim Neugent decided to lodge a complaint through an e-mail link on ABC's web site. Mr. Neugent was disgruntled with the 4 April 1999 episode of the ABC TV program 'The Practice' -- which featured a story line involving a lesbian couple who wished to get married -- and wrote to tell them so:

7 posted on 01/29/2003 9:34:25 AM PST by Johnny Gage (God Bless America, God Bless President George Bush, and God Bless our Military!)
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