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- From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
- Subject: Re: Companion
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.050339.28520@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:03:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.030941.4626@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.193443.7161@doug.cae.wisc.edu> matthewk@cae.wisc.edu (Matthew Thomas Kotowski) writes:
- >>P.S. I am good guy ..just give me a chance.
- >
- > Well, Matt, along with about 80,000 other people, everything I
- >know about you is based on one post, and that was a fatuous personal ad
- >posted to the wrong group. From that I conclude you're dumb as a
- >domestic turkey (the only animal that acts smarter dead than alive),
-
- Wow, you mean if he isn't herded inside when it rains that he drowns? As
- dumb as that?
-
- >probably can't dress yourself without help, and really deserve no chance
- >at all. Do you engage your mouth before your brain in person, too?
- >
- > Kayembee
-
-
- You know what struck me the most about Matt's post - somewhere up there at
- the top which Kenn so kindly deleted so that we didn't heve to see it a
- second time, Matt said that his post wasn't one of those anonymous
- personals. Its almost like he actually caught on to the fact that something
- about those anonymous personals was objectionable, too bad he settled on
- the "wrong" part being the anonymous element.
-
- I have this sinking feeling that trying to stem the tide of these personal
- adds is a losing battle. I mean somewhere out there amidst the 80,000 plus
- readers of this newsgroup, there are probably people who are of a like
- enough mentality with ole Matt and other posters of s.s personal ads that
- they will actually respond to these ads. This may, in the minds of some
- misguided potential posters, make the abuse and public humiliation that
- these ads induce tolerable.
-
- This is wrong thinking and this is why.
-
- I want all potential personal ad posters (add ppap's to the FAQ Trygve) to
- be forewarned that only a person who is scum will answer any ad posted in
- s.s. So if and only if you are willing to accept scum go ahead and post.
- If the responder is a woman she will be so ugly, mean-spirited, desperate and
- stupid that even her mother has given up trying to get her a date. If the
- responder is male then his only purpose will be to find someone to pay his
- bills, wash his underware, trim his toe nails and generally tend to his
- every need. It goes without saying that he has to be completely unappealing
- or he would not be desperate enough to answer the ad in the first place
- since he knows that he will be competing with every first-year college geek
- that's discovered that the net exists.
-
- MOO of course
-
- Max
-