From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
Date: 13 Aug 92 23:13:51 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

In article <l8l421INNpnv@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM
(242 lbs before cooking) writes:
>>Looking back on previous entries in this exchange,
>>you might (if your reading comprehension has improved recently) discover that
>>I disn't say anything as goofy as "Gosh Andy, you don't gag.".  I actually
>>said something like "Banta can do the most amazing things, without gagging!".
>
>Don, the simple fact of the matter *is* the most amazing thing you've
>ever seen me do without gagging is sitting across the table from you
>at the El Paso Cafe.  No shifting around of "truth" or what was said.
>
>I don't remember picking my nose at that juncture, either.
>
>No, you didn't say "Gosh Andy, you don't gag."  But given the fact
>that your rendition of the line had no context, it was just as goofy.
>In the original reply, I provided an example of what would have been
>suitable context.

Nonsense.  Try this experiment:  walk into Applejacks on La Honda Road
sometime when there are dozens of Harleys lined up outside.  Walk up to
a couple tough looking characters and say "I heard that you can do the
most amazing things without gagging" to one of them.  After they scrape
you off the wall, have your dental surgeon call and tell me how it went.

Only somebody with incredible naivete or horrible genetic damage wouldn't
be able to figure out what I was implying.  Fortunately, this is America
and you're free to have both, if you want.

>And you had to trim four full paragraphs to get this message something
>you could apply your mediocre methods of refutation to.  I haven't
>told you this in quite a while, Don, but people don't have that short
>a memory.

Well, letsee.  What could have been my motivation for trimming the
commented sections of this exchange:
  1. I was losing badly and decided to cut my losses?
  2. I can't come up with that many ideas?
  3. It occured to me that anybody reading this exchange might not care
     to wade through page after page of material and I tried to save them
     time and the net money?

>>No offense but you're clearly unable to compose your own thoughts or
>>express them with the least bit of originality.  Perhaps you fancy
>>yourself a formidable opponent in a flamewar but I've seen Kindergarteners
>>express themselves better than you can, when you're at your best
>
>It's absolutely no secret that I'll use a variety of styles, including
>some that I've seen used elsewhere, to get the job done.

Give it up, Andy.  You get ALL your material by reading other peoples'
posts.  And, to make matters worse, you act like Monty Python's Black
Knight (as I've said before):  you get hacked to pieces and still
continue mincing around, saying "You missed me", while deep red arterial
blood spurts from your wounds.  And since this is all being acted out
in writing, you're free to keep doing so, instead of acknowledging
that you've taken a hit.

Well, you may be having fun masturbating onto your keyboard, like some
pasty-faced MIT undergraduate who can only come while holding up a
Byte magazine with one hand, but it's getting tedious participating in
this thread.

So, I'm bailing out on this thread.  Go on, you get the last word this time;
have a field day.  Just wake me up when it's over...

   don
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