From: lwl@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Lydia Leong)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
Subject: Re: A Bedtime Story
Keywords: PHIL,yet,again,flame
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:51:37 GMT
Followup-To: alt.flame
Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow

#include "config.h"
#incldue "mudconf.h"
#include "sarcasm.h"		/* flame */

#ifdef PHIL_IS_STILL_BABBLING

#include "idiot.h"		/* PHIL is one */

In article <1992Oct2.074235.6996@pimacc.pima.edu> 
  ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu writes:
>Hey have you heard the one about the big bad A'bar & A'beryl?

Which story? There are probably lots.  :)

if (mudconf.lame_story) {
>It seems they had been smoking too much numbweed & decided that
>Pern was supposed to be stereotyped according to their hallucin-
>ogen influenced logic. 
}

No, no, no. Amberyl smokes MUSHROOMS and then has weird Hatchings.
Where've you been?

>Well, after numerous failed attempts at imposing their new Order upon 
>Weyr, Hold & Hall, 

if (mudconf.sarcasm) {
Ambar and Amberyl are wizards, what do you expect?
Plus they're GOLDRIDERS. There's a reason why the badge of office
is a whip, y'know.
}

>resisted staunchly by the widely known hero who need not be named, 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

> the great God of all Pern, known as AM, 

Where'd Moonchilde go?   ;)

>came along & struck them down mightily. The 
>joy of all Pern was great indeed on that glorious occasion!

if (mudstate.patience-- <= 0) {

I find Anne McCaffrey's reply to be a kind of wimp-out, actually.
One might also point out that the original 'loose interpretation'
conjecture posted to this group was that riders retire to the lower
caverns to find suitable women; Anne McCaffrey's reply clearly
stated that a partner had to be on-hand for the occassion.

Once _again_ I will object to this 'imposition of belief' bull.
Anyone is perfectly free to hold any kind of idiotic belief that
s/he wishes to, and I'm perfectly free to flame said individual.
(Unless, of course, you're on PernMUSH, and you believe that
paging obscenities to players is part of your tinyreligion, in
which case I'll be perfectly happy to treat you to a @boot.)

It's a pity that PHIL isn't a better flamer. His posts might
be at least mildly entertaining instead of annoying, then.

}

#endif				/* PHIL_IS_STILL_BABBLING */

I actually was rather amused by the story posted earlier.
I _am_ curious as to how Aunt_Pol ended up with all those Hamlet
characters, though.  :)

Unca L'rtes, my fire-lizards wanna hear a bedtime story, too.  ;)

Yeah, I promised myself that I wouldn't flame PHIL again (or read
any more of his posts, but I nuked my afp killfile accidentally).
He does such a fine job of making himself look stupid, without
any help.

I did want to extend my compliments on the story, though, so I
didn't resist hitting the 'F' key. Sorry.
Further followups have been redirected to alt.flame.

ObAnnounce: PernMUSH has MOVED to freya.arc.nasa.gov 4201
ObPernMUSH: Firelizards have been deregulated.

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