From: todd@refrig.dixie.com (Todd H.)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.animals
Subject: Re: Voting Results
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:48:23 GMT
Organization: the Bear Creek Tinkerer's Society and Social Club

russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:

>Would you mind listing some of the other ethnic groups that would
>be deserving of your ridicule?   

Ah, it must be so difficult to live in the drab and dour world of the
humor-impaired.  Go ahead, make fun of Swedes, I'll try not to cry while
you do it.

>If Linda were to take the time and trouble to satisfy your doubts
>about her existence, would you have the courage to admit that your
>claims have been foolish, if not moronic?

Oh, I've come to the conclusion that Linda does exist.  You see, I don't
just sit here on my hands, waiting for your next heart-rending post.  Now,
the big question is:  Did you write the post for her?

See, if you wade back to the original deal here, it was a simple post on my
part stating how *amazingly* simliar your style is to the post that was
puportedly made by Linda.  How innocuous a beginning, eh?  What was it about
that observation that put a bug up your butt so badly?  Striking a bit too
close to the core of the truth?

>Threats - Have you forgotten the comments you made about the 
>possibility of "crackers" on your system when I offered to give 
>you a feed of t.p.a.?  

Now, to show that you really have taught me something, I'll adopt your style -
"Please post the message where you claim I threatened to crack the security
on your system."

If you'll actually READ them this time, you'll find that they are merely a
good statement of system security, and one reason that *I* don't want a feed
from you - I would find myself in a position that someone on my system might
decide to cause havoc on yours, and that's not my style.

>Please post the email message that you claim was nearly identical to
>Linda's post.  

You're really a fun guy, Russell - this game could go on longer than some of
your posts last at 300 baud.  Remember saying this a few days ago?

>Gee, you remembered this email message well-enough to claim that 
>it was nearly identical with the comments made by Linda Guidry, 
>yet I don't recall sending you such a message.  Moreover, there 
>was no record of any such correspondence in our system logs.  
>Whereas the existence of such a message is very much in doubt,

Now, you're asking me for a message that you claimed before didn't exist!
The message itself is moot - I told you once that I'd deleted it, and that's
when you started telling me it didn't ever exist.  Now that I've introduced
doubt to you that it perhaps does exist, by teasing you with a statement
that I might just still have it after all, it seems that you're retracting
your earlier statement that it never was sent.  True or false - do you
recall the message?  It's just that simple, Russell - who cares what word
for word the message said, when I can't tell the difference between two of
your messages written months apart anyhow.  And back to the point at hand,
I can't tell the difference between your messages and Linda's, leading me
to believe that you wrote the message ascribed to Linda Guidry.

You might as well agree to disagree with me.  You've come out of this looking
like a dishonest version of Richard Nixon, and I'm starting to look like the
schoolyard bully.  Considering the audience, I'm not too concerned, image in
the Usenet isn't a real commodity, anyway.

Oh, by the way, congratualtions on your being the 22nd most frequent poster
by number of articles this week.  Keep up the typing.

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