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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Loren and Heather should bicker in person, not on net
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec16.185303.26638@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <16DEC92.19472567@vax.clarku.edu> <1992Dec18.181618.22775@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <lefty-181292170344@lefty.apple.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:17:36 GMT
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- In <lefty-181292170344@lefty.apple.com> lefty@apple.com (Lefty) writes:
-
- ...in his usual flaming style, always without giving a clue as to what
- the flaming is justified by.
-
- >> Mr. Anderson
- >Lefty
-
- >Here we have an excellent example of the Common Newbie Nematode. After
- >contributing nothing to any discussion other than his belief that women who
- >are raped never get pregnant, and his occasional yelps of "Attaboy, Loren!"
- >Mr. Anderson shares with us his belief that "99% of the rest of the net"
- >would rather not listen to Heather quite ably skewering Mr. Finkelstein for
- >being such a completely clueless fool.
-
- >Seems as though your hero is getting the worst of things here, Mr.
- >Anderson. You might do better to quietly slink away. If you keep jumping
- >up and down, yelling, "Don't hurt him! Don't hurt him!" you're bound to
- >attract attention to yourself.
-
- I'm not doing any of the above, by the way. I missed out on all the
- really substanitive arguments due to netserver failure, and all I'm
- hearing are trivial little echoes that do not justify anything Lefty
- is saying--not that I have *ever* seen Lefty give *any* justification
- for *any* of his flaming comments.
-
- >> I suppose flames are a constitutional right, but let's *all* try
- >> and keep them to a minimum, ok? (I admit to my own guilt and
- >> agree to help)
-
- >I have a better idea. Why don't you take yourself down to the nearest
- >highway, lie down in the express lane, and work on perfecting your
- >impression of a median divider?
-
- This is run-of-the-mill, all in a day's play flaming by Lefty. The really
- good stuff comes when he goes after Darcy, when you get to read about
- driving stakes through the heart and that sort of thing.
-
- "...de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"
- --Danton, almost exactly 200 years ago, cheerleading
- the French revolutionaries
-
- [Translation given at the end of the Quote of the Hour, after my "signature".
- Against Darcy, Lefty seems to get into the same frenzy as the Jacobins
- during the reign of terror 200 years ago.]
-
- >> And, ftr, I believe the term is "pom pon", not "pompom";
- >> not that I agree to the above accusation, of course.
-
- >For the record, you haven't got the slightest, foggiest fuck of an idea
- >what you're talking about. The term is most certainly "pom pom".
-
- Note the escalation in the language level. Too bad Mr. Anderson
- did not say, "FYI, the correct spelling is `pom pon'." Then you would
- have seen some real fireworks from Lefty instead of this wishy-washy
- gutter language, which is almost boring compared to his best productions.
-
- >Hie thee hence, Mr. Anderson. Take that single, lonely neuron of yours
- >with you when you go.
-
- This is more like it. Keep those insults coming, Lefty. You'd bore
- us to tears (or maybe have us in stitches) if you ever tried posting
- what you think of as a rational argument on abortion.
-
- Peter Nyikos
-
- Quote of the hour:
-
- [note the reference to posting-up in the third line :-)]
-
- September 2 [1792] was a Sunday, with few people at work: there was every
- opportunity for inflammatory oratory...At dawn the Commune issued a
- proclamation, posted up all over Paris: "TO ARMS, CITIZENS, TO ARMS, THE
- ENEMY IS AT OUR GATES!" (So far was the enemy from the gates that it
- required two days of hard riding to reach Paris from the lost fortress
- [of Verdun], and the Duke of Brunswick managed to use up the next twelve
- days in advancing just twenty miles.) The orators whipped up all who would
- listen to them into a frenzy of mingled anger and fear. Danton donned
- a scarlet cloak and went to the Assembly, insisting that his wife Gabrielle
- (who hated crowds and public debates) come with him...The tocsin was
- about to be rung again, he declared:
-
- Whoever refuses to serve in person, or to return his arms, will
- suffer the death penalty. When the tocsin sounds, it is not an
- alarm signal; it sounds the charge against our country's enemies.
- And to defeat them, gentlemen, we need audacity, yet more audacity,
- always audacity, and France will be saved!
-
- From _The Guillotine and the Cross_, by Warren H. Carroll
- Trinity Communications, Manassas, VA 1986, pp. 39-40
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