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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Don't blame lawyers!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.182617.643@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 18:26:17 EST
- References: <18796@mindlink.bc.ca> <1ha35qINN5ne@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <1ha35qINN5ne@life.ai.mit.edu>, joltman@cookie-crisp.ai.mit.edu (T. Andy Frakes) writes:
- > Who is this DMC bonehead, anyway? There's been so much traffic here
- > recently that I've only been scanning the articles for real info or
- > interesting debates. Needless to say, I've skipped a majority of the
- > articles and seemed to have missed all this DMC stuff (perhaps for
- > the better). On the surface it looks like this bozo is yanking a lot
- > of chains and probably having a good time doing it (or perhaps I'm
- > giving they guy too much credit and he's just a total moron, but
- > probably not). I recognize the style, though. I've used it myself a
- > few times before to spice things up when things are slow. I even did
- > it on this newsgroup a few months back with that one article titled
- > "Listen Up, Bobby Bashers" as many of you probably remember. Most
- > people eventually figured it out, but some didn't (even after telling
- > them!).
-
- While that may have been a tactic you used to while away the hours in your
- otherwise pointless existance, my posts have been designed to question the
- positions stated by 'experts' and if said positions are the result of informed,
- impartial decision-making.
-
- Just because YOU waste your life does not mean that everyone else is as
- pointless as you.
-
- If you want people to know that you're just pulling their leg,
- > I think you need to end your article like those phony talk show callers
- > do (Capt. Janks, etc.): "....and I was also wondering if it's not too
- > late to order 'Butt Bongo Fiesta' by Howard Stern." Then again, people
- > will probably still not get the joke.
-
- Make no mistake, my attacks are entirely serious.
-
- >
- > Oh well. I think I'll start reading this thread for a while in case it
- > proves interesting.
-
- Not with such un-educable people as yourself jumping in...except, of course, to
- those who have similar degrees of repsect for legitimate questions.
-
- >
- > -Andy
- >
- > ================================================================
- > = T. Andy Frakes (joltman@ai.mit.edu) =
- > = =
- > = This user does not believe in smiley faces. Insert your own =
- > ================================================================
-