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- From: owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: My dinner with Anderson.
- Message-ID: <17960@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:29:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.225857.7844@macc.wisc.edu> <17944@autodesk.COM> <1992Nov18.032407.28493@macc.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.032407.28493@macc.wisc.edu>, anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- > In article <17944@autodesk.COM> owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen
- > Rowley) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- Embeded negatives don't work on those who know the trick Jess.
-
- However I've always figured you don't really read anybody elses posts,
- and merely hammer out your commentary based on some strange formula.
-
- How much time could you possibly spend reading, when so much is spent
- dispensing such hearty fare.
-
- > 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,
-
- show me where I said that.
- Its true I rarely agree with you , but I believe
- I've made some attempts to acknowledge when I do.
-
- > I believe, that you thrive on strife.
-
- Believe what you will. But let me state plainly that I think
- dialogue is the spice of life. I don't require that the exchange be
- characterised by strife, but neither do I require agreement as
- qualification for participation.
-
- What do you thrive on Jess, could it be that an individual who posts
- volume equal to all other participants cares nothing about the attention
- it brings? enlighten us Jess, I'd like to know what drives you.
-
- > >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.
-
- Oh darn, I already removed the pesky little artichoke, well .. its gone now!
-
- > The fact is it was you who
- > waited for a confrontational opportunity, which is after all
- > your stock in trade.
-
- Your hands and keyboard are pure, unstained by any glimmer
- of cattiness of confrontation. I don't think so Jess.
-
- My stock in trade is wordsmithing in ways that promote thinking
- Jess. One of the big differences between us is that I don't insist that
- the reader winds up thinking my thoughts in place of their own.
-
- I don't shrink from confrontation, but I don't seek it out.
-
- > >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.
-
- Don't flatter yourself, out of the bulk of jess-0-bytes that
- flood through the newsgroup, I sample quite little.
-
- I have no prblem with you as a person Jess, and a few years back I
- actually thought there was some mutual respect for our differences of
- opinion. But I've come to a different position now. Your
- tendency to dismiss all other viewpoints as moronic, and your
- patronising habit of never looking back at your own trail when
- you get bitchy has left me fairly indifferent towards you.
-
- > I know it's bragging, but I thought the Yahweh cult crack
- > was hilarious, couldn't have happened at a better moment.
-
- In all honesty Jess, it was pretty bland to me .
-
- > It was churlish, however, I'll now confess, not to commend
- > you for "creamed scorn."
-
- you're welcome.
-
- Pass the peaze.
-
- LUX ./. owen
-
-
-
- --
- D. Owen Rowley {uunet,fernwood,sun}!autodesk!owen
-
- " It will be a cold March 17th that I celebrate the imposition of
- Romes rule, on Pagan Ireland. Erin go ppphhhhhttttttt! "
-