From: poser@vxdsyc.desy.de (Till Poser)
Subject: Re: The New Official T.B Bird
Followup-To: alt.politics.clinton,alt.flaem
Summary: lot's of Macaw baiting
Reply-To: Poser@vxdsyc.desy.de
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:41:25 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.142516.7457@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, 
mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) gets all in a huff and
ruffles his feathers when he gets told off:

|>In article <rkyxv1l@rpi.edu> jacksonk@gehrig.cs.rpi.edu 
|>(Keith Jackson) writes:
|>>
|>>Gee Fred, you make friends everywhere you go, don't you?  I criticized
|>>him  for playing games with the talk.bizarre-ites and he sent me email
|>>in which he proceeded to use the same attitude to throw a  tantrum  at
|>>me.   I responded once, but it only seemed to fuel his fire more, so I
|>>ignored him.  This, I recommend highly.

Yup! But I won't do it. Baiting characters like him is just too much fun,
even if there is no real artistry in it. "The wonder about the Dancing
Macaw is not how graceful he dances, but that he dances at all!"

I removed talk.bizarre from the distribution (and added another, much 
more appropriate, group, to be sure) but this'll be back here in two laps.
Pull his strings and see the Macaw dance.

|>Yep, sure do.  Especially among children and talk.bizarros.  As for
|>'tantrum', I think you need to take a closer look at your own actions
|>and not attribute your petty fits of temper to me.

But, Freddie, old bird, this skit of "Didn't! Didn't! You did! You did!"
that You have been entertaining us with isn't all that effective, given
the utter intellectual paucity Your retorts degraded into. The last batch
was posititively childish, as is this finger pointing You're indulging in.

|>>IGNORE FRED J. MCCALL -- he has this stern parent complex in which  he
|>>takes it upon himself to punish others, not realizing that rather than
|>>acting like a true parent, he is merely resorting to  child-like  tac-
|>>tics.  If we all ignore him, maybe he'll get bored and go away.

No, I'm afraid he's just to nice a punching bag. Since his retort will,
predictably end up in talk.bizarre yet again, this'll go another round.
Once he quits playing the clay pidgeon there, the whole thread evaporates.

|>Well, given the total intellectual bankruptcy of your 'reasoning'
|>here, somehow I don't think I'll miss you, Keith.  

Oh, but the point is, Freddie, that if You persist in this more and more 
people will have _You_ in their kill files just to escape being bothered
out of their skull. Who are You going to talk to then in this here nice 
group after doing Your mighty vanquishing hero thang? Given _Your_ so 
highly intellectual reasoning You'll just end up squawking into the void. 
Squawk on, Freddie, me lad!

|>                                                  Ignore away.  

Not bloody likely. 

|>                                                               Given
|>the general view of anyone who matters toward the old 'I put you in my
|>kill file, nya nya nya nyanya' tactic, I think you just made yourself
|>look a lot worse than I ever possible could have.

But You see, Mr.Jackson never said anything about killfiles. As for looking
bad, do You really think there is any percentage in prolonging a conflict
for which one side doesn't care a rubber ningis worth about the "moral" 
outcome? 

|>Get back in touch if you ever get a life, a clue, or any intelligence,
|>won't you?

Oh my! You sure showed him did You? Well, I submit that Mr.Jacksons approach
to this problem will enable him to lead a life while You will be furthermore
engaged in futile revenge, furiously posting one retributive posting after
the other. I mean, meanwhile I do this for the sheer amusement it affords me
but You seem to be on a Holy MISSION to teach us manners. I assume this is 
the burden incurred from having that "intelligence" that You seem to miss in
Mr.Jackson. The Macaw's Burden, oh my, Kipling will spin in his grave!

|>Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Oh, but FreddieBoy, if You don't speak for others, why are You so hellbent
on playing out Your little paternalistic phantasy? 

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