From: patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
Newsgroups: alt.abortion.inequity,talk.abortion
Subject: Re: a woman's choice
Summary: I've upped my standards.  Up yours, Welch.
Date: 17 Apr 1992 04:30:25 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Rice University

In article <74555@netnews.upenn.edu> kwelch@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Geisha Dawn) writes:
>Patrick
>>Kevin W.
>>>Patrick
>
>
>>>>>Hey, Patrick....I could have sworn I saw you with a different attribute
>>>>>once or twice on t.a  :)
>
>>>>I know.  It's amazing what you can do with xrn, isn't it?  I promise,
>>>>though, you can have "Geisha Dawn" all to yourself.
>
>>>Well, that stems from many years of REM song translations.  Once I found out
>>>that it was in the lyrics of Shaking Through, I thought I'd stick
>>>it up in there.
>
>>>What does this mean.....hmmmm
>
>>Hey, you put it up there, you figure it out.  (This *would* have to happen
>>just when I was considering being "Karn Evil 9" for this post, no less.)
>
>Karn Evil 9.  That suits you Patrick.  I encourage you to be more
>imaginative when you post.

Well, excuse me if I like something that was popular when you were still in
diapers.  De gustibus non est disputantum, you know.

>Geisha Dawn...I know not what it means...but I like it.

You don't know a LOT of things, but that never stops you from acting like
you *do* know them -- with the predictable result.

>>>>So, Scott Roby is "history", eh?  Sucking up to such slime as Steve
>>>>"Absurdgent" Chaney won't make you any friends...
>
>>>I haven't sucked up to Chaney at all.  I think snooping around the
>>>net is a bad thing.  
>
>>Especially if it results in catching you with your pants down, eh?
>
>Catching me with my pants down?  Really.  Caught me snooping around the
>net, Patty?  Get caught?  No.  I don't dig into other's personal
>lives.

Well, la dee da.  Neither do I.  We have something in common after all.

>>>And I see you got my mail from him...or maybe he just passed by word of
>>>mouth.  Either way, he has no respect for privacy.
>
>>He's forgotten more about a respect for privacy than YOU will ever know,
>>little boy.  Maybe I should ask Susan to show us just what a high moral
>>ground you hold...
>
>Ask if you must.

You really *are* wet in the head -- you really want your sleazy e-mail to
her to be dragged out in public again?  Talk about "it takes all kinds"...

>>>And he's history.
>
>>In your dreams, maybe.  Too bad Chaney's own administrator confirmed that
>>the account being used by "Dennis Hall" had, in fact, been issued to none
>>other than Steve Chaney.  
>
>So, what?  I have no alligence to Chaney.  He's a warrior with the same cause.

Yeah, he's doing the best job of gaining converts to pro-choice that I've
ever seen.  You sure know how to pick winners, don't you?

>>>Call Chaney what you want.  No matter to me.  He's not my right hand man.
>
>>Just a fellow traveler, sure.  Old Russian proverb:  tell me who your
>>friends are, I'll tell you who you are.  That doesn't exactly cast you in a
>>good light, does it?
>
>Whatever you say.

What, can't think of something stupid to claim to refute that?  I'm
impressed, sort of.

>>>Spend a lot of time there, Patrick?  Devloping alcohol dependency?  That's
>>>a real problem for you.  Imagine, supplying a bar's phone number.  That
>>>means that there's a high probability that you'll be there.
>
>>What a hoot.  Since you're a foreigner, I'll explain it for you:  Willy's is
>>on the Rice campus (our founder is known to many as Willy, after all) and is
>>run by the University.  I've been there twice in my life.  (It's closing for
>>the summer after tonight, so I can hardly wait to see what you can imagine
>>next.)
>
>Had an LCE raid I guess.

I don't know what LCE is -- I'm not a foreigner, remember?  Willy's have had
no problems with TABC, though -- it's the end of the semester, you
blitherin' idiot.

>>>Cool.  Order me a White Russian and I'll join you there some time.
>>
>>If you ever set foot in Houston, you will do much better if you don't let me
>>know.  And that's a fact.
>
>Why?  What would you do if let you know?  Would you threaten me
>with violence?

Why should I do that?  Just leaving you outside in the heat of a typical
summer afternoon would do the job...

>  If you're going to try and imply that I have some
>>sort of problem with alcohol, go right ahead.  I drink the equivalent of
>>about one beer a *year*.  I don't think I'd have survived 22-plus years of
>>being a Type I diabetic if I'd ever had any kind of alcohol-dependency
>>problem.
>
>I never said you did.  I;m glad to see you don't drink.

If you're going to lie, at least put some effort into it, child.  You tried
your best to imply something along those lines -- otherwise, why did you
bring it up in the first place?  Just to hear your gums flapping?
I'd like to see you repeat that implication to my face...and I'm pretty sure
you wouldn't have the balls (or the stupidity) to do it.  Therefore, all
we're doing in this case is discussing something that *could* happen, but
won't.  Stay in your West Philadelphia slum, and it won't, simple as that.

>>(Just when you were acting almost civilized, you had to resort to *this*.
>>Simon says:  Fuck off and die, Welch.)
>
>Hey, that's cool.  Can you fight without the language, Pat?  Got to resort
>to lay languge?  Can't you fight on an intellectual level?

Shove it until your ears bleed, Welch.  You know exactly what you're doing,
and you do it anyway.  Get used to my boots clobbering your head -- because
that's how it's going to be the rest of the spring...and when you come back
in the fall, I'll be waiting.  You'll learn that you trifle with us Harlan
Countians at your own peril.  (None of this physical, of course.  You think
I'd want to waste the time going to one of the larger waste dumps on this
continent just to be exposed to your "wisdom"?  I've got my life right here.
If you don't like that, too bad.  Now -- go out and swim back across the
Delaware so the rest of us can get back to discussing things...)

>Okay, I understand.

You don't have the necessary equipment to pull off *that* feat.  Thank "Bob"
you're only defrauding your parents, going to Penn...


-- 
Patrick L. Humphrey  (patrick@is.rice.edu)  Rice Networking & Computing Systems
  +1 713 528-3626 at Rice. 713 776-1541 at home. 713 527-4056 at Willy's Pub.
The U.S. Constitution isn't perfect -- but it's a hell of a lot better than
                            what we have now...
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