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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.052257.24687@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <thurlow.727889563@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan24.234120.21420@netcom.com> <thurlow.728191661@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 05:22:57 GMT
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- In article <thurlow.728191661@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
-
- ] In <1993Jan24.234120.21420@netcom.com>
- ] rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
- ]
- ] > Guy Barry asked and I answered him with who I liked. Computer
- ] >generated? Nah.
- ]
- ] You mean you enter "Browne, Jackson" BY HAND? Do you do that when
- ] speaking, too? You must have a hard time talking to anyone except
- ] toll-free salespeople.
-
- [most of tirade deleted; if you care, you can read it in any of the
- several messages Rob has been posting each day that all say the same
- thing, with each only a little more strident than the previous one]
-
- ] As such,
- ] you make my skin crawl, where before I simply though of you as having
- ] no redeeming characteristics. Get thee to a mental health facility!
-
- I know someone who, back in his early to mid teens, used to have
- tantrums like this when someone did something he thought was improper,
- like wearing a shirt that didn't have all it's buttons buttoned--he
- figured that if a shirt had buttons, then they were meant to be buttoned
- and would become quite vocally angry at anyone who failed to use buttons
- in the manner he felt they should be. Granted, leaving a collar button
- undone is a bit more serious (and at least as peculiar) as typing
- "Browne, Jackson," but there were other things at least as trivial as
- your particular hangup that he couldn't deal with rationally either.
-
- Fortunately, he grew out of it not too long after becoming old enough to
- drive--now, I'd gotten the impression from your other posts that you
- were perhaps a little older than that (do correct me if I'm wrong here),
- but perhaps you're just a late bloomer and just need a little more time.
-
- Ah, well; if nothing else, the recent onslaught of your anti-David
- messages has given him a good chance to impress me with his ability to
- remain intellectually competent and rational no matter how much you
- stomp your little feet and throw ASCII tantrums at him for typing in
- a few names in alphabetical order or having well-expressed and
- considered ideas on controversial subjects.
-
- Trygve
- --
- "There exists considerable anecdotal evidence for helpful dolphins carrying
- injured swimmers back to shore; however, it seems unlikely that injured
- swimmers who were carried out to sea by equally well-intentioned but
- somewhat more misguided dolphins would have much to say about it."
-
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