From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Pained Whale?
Keywords: elephant, HE, m203
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 23:31:33 GMT

In article <92Oct14.135658.28951@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles
Parr), with some help from his mommy, writes:
>>Name's Scott.  If you're going to do nothing but incessantly bitch,
>>at least spell my name right.
>
>That, Scotty-Wotty, was likely a mistake. That's okay though,
>Scotto, I'm sure none of us here would do something as childish
>as play name games with you, Scot. In fact, Scooter, one suspects
>this little slip, this revelation that it bothers you to have
>your name defaced, won't come back to haunt you at all. That make
>you feel better, Scottles?

For god's safe, this isn't alt.kids.playground.insults.  This is alt.peeves.
We welcome well thought-out laments about the problems you encounter in
life, and well-written flames.  We certainly DON'T welcome this sort of
drivel.  If you can't do any better that the stuff you just posted,
please do us the favor of pissing off without saying anything more...
otherwise, we'll be forced to see if a gravel enema will help you.

>Is it just me, or are there others who think that if you're gonna
>genuflect to some spook, you really ought to feel a little more
>involved? Some faith perhaps? A little fervour? Some bible-
>smashing, witch-burning, proselytising, sweating, revival tent
>style RELIGION!!!!!!

Son, you've been watching entirely too much TV.  Do you really believe
that the intensity with which you embrace your beliefs increases their
validity?  Surely if that were the case, Charles Manson would be running
of the United States now (though, come to think of it, he might be better
than the lot we've had to choose from, lately).  At the VERY least, Sarah
Brady's idiotic law would have passed and Randall Terry would actually be
an important person.  But it didn't and he isn't:   the anti-abortion nuts
had their clock cleaned in Buffalo, of all places!

You see, oh Stunted One, you can perfectly rabid about your beliefs and
it won't increase your credibility one whit.  It seems to me that the
people who really have their act together are quieter about what they
believe, not so passionate and more reflective.  Even being an ex-Catholic,
I have to admit that they're at least quiet and dignified about practicing
their religion...although, the most important thing they've managed to do
lately is turn a lot of ordinary kids into Sex Monsters and end Sinead
O'Connor's career.

So take a little advice from one who's been around for a while:  pop a
valium or drink a couple glasses of wine, and play a couple games of
Naked Twister with someone who you like.  You'll learn more about life
that way than by running around and trying to emulate the Fundies.

     don
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Just yesterday, a college student came up to me and asked me a
serious question: "Reverend Chuck," he asked, "what are the most important
things in life?"
        He honestly expected a complex answer, all full of philosophy and
other types of thinking, but instead I gave her the straight-forward, no
bull answer:
"Money and Jesus," I said.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Don Baldwin  -  Software Engineer  - e-mail to:  donb@tamri.com


From: ssouth@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Steve South)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:31:04 GMT
Subject: Marketeers from Hell
Organization: HP Scientific Instruments Division - Palo Alto, CA