From: takkyon@dartmouth.edu (Dr. Tachyon)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
Subject: Re: A Bedtime Story
Keywords: PHIL, Flame, Hamlet, Aunt_Pol, Stupidity
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:23:51 GMT
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This post is a *flame*.  I make no excuses for posting a flame, and have
no intention of bothering to defend myself from people who criticize me
for doing so.  If you don't like flames, do yourself a favor, and don't
continue.  

	@emit hasflag(*PHIL,clue)
	0

	[coos/19:48] grep -i 'sense' /usr/people/phil
	[coos/19:49]

All right, enough cheap shots...well...maybe not...

In some article whose header I forgot to copy, PHIL flames Lydia:

>If you think AM wimped out then I guess it must seem terrible to you
that 
>she allowed a riders sexual preferences to hold some sway in the matter. 
>Ah yes, what a terrible thing. 

AM *did* wimp out.  As far as I can determine, 95% of the people who read
her books got the idea that mating flights resulted in sex between the
riders.   For her to temporize in the way she did in her reply on the
subject is something of a disappointment, and not just to the readers who
thought so.  (I'm not going to elaborate; go ahead, you can figure it
out.  Maybe.)  

>I still don't understand why you find it necessary to be so intolerant of
>those who don't share your opinions. First me & now AM. Who's next?

PHIL, buddy, I'm not intolerant of you because of your opinions, no
matter how moronic I consider them.  If you want to think the Red Star is
made of hot coals, you go right ahead and think that.  I'm intolerant of
you because you are...now listen carefully and see if you can understand
the words...acting...like...a...twink.

Incidentally, you seem to have completely missed the point of Ophelia's
bedtime story.  The Point, according to L'rtes, is (drumroll):

L>        P'hil has a point.  He may even be right, since, technically,
if you sit
L> on it and it has four legs, you have some grounds for calling it a
chair.  
L> But this doesn't change the fact that he's acting like an idiot.

L>        *smirk*  I _knew_ he wouldn't get it.

>> 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.  :)
>Yes, well, *you* would wouldn't you? Says alot about your character
>or lack thereof actually.

Exsqueeze me?  What the hell do you of all people know about Lydia's
character, or lack thereof?  Your comment betrays not only an astonishing
absence of tact, good sense, and knowledge of when you actually know what
the flaming scarlet shards you're talking about (which, admittedly, is
probably a rare state), but also shows quite clearly that not only did
you not get the joke, you're clueless enough to show the world you
didn't.  Lydia, IMNVHO and the NHVOs of others, has a damn fine
character, and precisely where you get off criticizing it, when I
seriously doubt if you know anything about her beyond the fact that she
flames idiots on a.f.p., I do not know.  If, as I suspect, you meant to
criticize her taste in literature instead of her character, and through
either basic stupidity or bad typing managed not to convey it, then you
couldn't be more wrong.  I am quite sure she would have no problem
reciting the complete cast of _Hamlet_ from memory, as well as
substantion portions of the play.  Instead of merely ignoring a joke
which you obviously did not understand, you instead elected to make
yourself look, if possible, like more of an idiot than you already are.  

Head on down to the local Timex/Sinclair dealer, PHIL.  Your logic board
needs to be replaced.

	give *PHIL=clue
	Permission denied.

Figures, doesn't it?

		-- Herr Feldmarschall dt
				Ye Royal Lord High Twink-Squisher Extraordinaire, Amby's Army

-- 
"I think it's time to get rip-snorting drunk, don't you?" 
							-- Professor Gregory Atlas
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