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- From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: The Problem With Stevie (Was Re: JENNY'S LESSON IN FLAMING)
- Keywords: I HATE DICKHEADS
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:50:20 GMT
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- In <Bxv36L.E5p@nic.umass.edu> jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
- writes:
-
- >Is anyone that much of a sucker for punishment!
-
- He sorta reminds me of this guy I knew in high school. Everyone loathed this
- person, and I felt kinda sorry for him, so I tried to befriend him, and quickly
- found out WHY everyone loathed him: he had one of the most powerful,
- intractable self-defeating behavior [behaviour] patterns that I've ever seen in
- an individual outside of an institution. Whenever anyone was nice to him, he
- immediately began the most obnoxious behavior possible under the
- circumstances, and would not stop for anything--not if you asked him to, not if
- you threatened him with bodily harm, not if you tried to ignore him--until the
- object of his unwanted attention publicly humiliated him. Once, in art class,
- he responded to a mere gesture of politeness on my part by describing, loudly
- enough for most of the class to hear, his recent tribulations following the
- surgical removal of a cyst from his buttocks, in particular how the
- none-too-gentle removal of a catheter had left him with recurring spasms of
- pain in his urethra. I tried moving to another table, and he kept following
- me--until I painted moustaches onto the Barbiesque portraits that he was
- working on.
-
- Several years later, I saw him on the Oprah Winfrey show, the subject being
- people who were picked on in high school (I kid you not); he claimed the title
- of "King Freak" of our school, and said that the cruelty of his classmates had
- almost driven him to suicide. I laughed loud and hearty!
-
- >He still thinks that this is some sort of a game - I guess he missed Alex's
- explanation.
-
- I'd say he's missed quite a few things.
-
- >Mike H., perhaps you should add to the FAQ: "How do you solve a problem
- >like Steve Franklin? What is the proper means of disposal of a poor
- >writer who has been flamed all over the net so many times that he can't
- >even feel the heat?" I don't expect you to have the answer, but perhaps
- >if we all put our heads together we can come up with something.
-
- It may be time to stop standing on ceremony, and compile that kill
- file--although there IS that guilty pleasure that Stevie's public displays
- create--not unlike the guilty pleasure that our ancestors got at watching
- Stevie's ancestors bite the heads off of chickens at small-town carnivals.
-
- --
-
- Tom Dennis | I looked into the abyss,
- dennis@alexia.uiuc.edu | and the abyss looked into me--
- tadg0614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | and we both winked.
-