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- From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: testing tin
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.141349.15601@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:13:49 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.153106.16146@e2big.mko.dec.com> <C19yBA.CnH@fc.hp.com>
- Sender: pel@maximo (Phillip E lujan)
- Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Lines: 64
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- Starknight pops back into the Place, looking a bit abashed....
-
- In article <C19yBA.CnH@fc.hp.com>, daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
- |>Phillip E lujan (pel@maximo.enet.dec.com) wrote:
- |>:
- |>: In article <C18I95.A0E@fc.hp.com>, daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
- |>: |>I have been around here far too long to start respecting the traditions
- |>: |>at this point.
- |>: |>
- |>: |>I respond as I see fit.
- |>:
- |>: "Better yet, don't... No. I'm not going to flame anyone, especially not
- |>: here. I vowed to be a better person this year, and that includes toleration,
- |>: even of things I can't stand... like people who jump down my throat for
- |>: having fun. Take care, doug... respond as you see fit, but I won't see it."
- |>
- |>You are such a touchy fellow Phillip. I was not jumping down your
- |>throat. You told me to lighten up. I was merely indicating to you
- |>that I am entirely light already. My response to the punsters is
- |>play. Given this, I was merely making it clear to you that I
- |>have no need to lighten up, and I did so in a completely even-handed
- |>and polite manner.
- |>
- |>I vastly prefer my own sens of style to the traditions developed
- |>by others or even traditions I started. That is why I no longer
- |>do radio free colorado posts, even though I originated the idea.
- |>
- |>Always the new. Always the different. That is the heart of variety
- |>and the grist of life.
- |>
- |>:
- |>: <kill all by author:daq@fc.hp.com>
- |>
- |>Well, this will keep you from misconstruing me at least.
- |>
- |>
- |>doug
-
- "Sorry about this, folks. I know that a number of you have probably posted in
- response to this already, but it's first thing Monday morning and I haven't had
- time to read through the 232 posts that came in this weekend...
-
- "At the time I posted in response to Doug, I was suffereing from a lot of mis-
- directed anger... I've had some really negative reactions from people in the
- past when I pun, and I totally misread Doug's intent. I knew that his style was
- cynical and sarcastic, but somehow failed to take that into account. As a
- former cynic myself (6+ years in an organization you don't fit into - the US Air
- Force - can do that to you), I should have been more understanding...
-
- "Thanks to Danger Mouse and Slash Maraud for trying to get me back on the path
- of Callahan's - empathy (guess it's the em-path), but there was really no need,
- as Doug and I had an interesting discussion via email after I had cooled off...
-
- "Thanks, everyone, for putting up with me when I was such an utter ass. Mike,
- drinks all around, put them on my tab... I'll have a Guinness. I need some-
- thing bitter to drink as penance (fortunately for me, I like Guinness...)"
-
- Starknight
- spr@abo.dec.com
- Disclaimer: Huh? What'd I say?
-
- "Oh, and this is one time my procrastination paid off. I hadn't gotten around
- to killing Doug's posts yet... now I don't have to!"
-