home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!anderson
- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Rowley Redux
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.032407.28493@macc.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1992Nov16.225857.7844@macc.wisc.edu> <17944@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 03:24:07 GMT
- Lines: 58
-
-
- In article <17944@autodesk.COM> owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen
- Rowley) writes:
-
- >No Jess, like I did in the two articles i posted last week,
- >the ones which didn't elicit as much as a peep from you.
-
- I hope you won't be holding your breath too long, Owen, or
- be too shocked to discover that I do not attend upon your
- every word. Possibly I agreed with your substance, if I
- read it. Agreement, in other than extraordinary cases, is a
- smaller inducement to comment than disagreement; I know you
- understand since it's your own habit virtually never to
- agree. You've said it quite often, I believe, that you
- thrive on strife.
-
- >But you never comment on the substance of what i post, you
- >wait for a confrontational opportunity.
-
- I think you're turned slightly around, good buddy. The peep
- I heard from you was that pusillanimous pustule of pompous
- bluster responded to above. The fact is it was you who
- waited for a confrontational opportunity, which is after all
- your stock in trade.
-
- >You understand me well enough to know it will come, but you
- >apparently don't grok that it exposes the baser part of your
- >nature.
-
- Speaking as we were of parental nattering...
-
- >You're really slipping Jess, you used to be able to quip
- >better than this.
-
- Well, I will just sit here and weep my eyes out about how
- I'm slipping, over the hill, a decaying wreck, and all that
- great stuff. Anything so you think you're getting the
- attention you deserve ...
-
- >But you did remember to remove the substance I was
- >commenting about.
-
- ... substance or no. I hadn't realized you doted on my
- favor to quite that degree. I hope you won't find it too
- parental of me to suggest it's time you were weaned.
-
- I know it's bragging, but I thought the Yahweh cult crack
- was hilarious, couldn't have happened at a better moment.
- It was churlish, however, I'll now confess, not to commend
- you for "creamed scorn."
-
- <> Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
- <> -- Karl Kraus
- --
- [Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin]
- [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson]
- [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888]
- [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
-