From: ra@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra)
Subject: Re: Another flame from Starcap'n Ra   [please be advised that
         "Another flame from" as a subject was first used by greg Nowak --
         thank you all for your time for allowing me to point this out
         to anyone who might somehow not already know it.  Thank you, greg,
         for the wonderful addition to t.b lore.  And now, on to the
         article.  Thank you. ]
Organization: t.b
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:43:29 GMT

greg@phoenix (greg Nowak) writes:
> Bwahahahahah, as sexton used to say.

     Greg, you don't have to give sexton an
attribution for that.  Really you don't.  To
bother to attribute to sexton such a commonly
used expression only makes you look like
a namedropper rather than someone legitimately
concerned about copying someone's work.

     Although I must admit you do look kind of
cute with your nose up sexton's butt.

> This is the response that Lippert
> ripped off from dominus. It must be quite encrusted by now. 

     2 + 2 = 4.  I guess that statement's
quite encrusted by now too, eh greg?

> But you do get points for figuring out how to pull text from the
> Summary: line into the article.

     Excuse me?

> Pretty soon, you'll be promoted up from the plastic dinnerware! 

HAW HAW HAW NOW I GET IT!@#                   [ Although everyone is
                                              already perfectly aware that
THAT WAS A FLAME!!#@!                         these four lines are in
                                              the style of Rob Dobson,
YOU'RE COMPARING ME TO DAN QUAYLE!@#!         and at the risk of causing
                                              Rob to roll over in the
HAW HAW JUST LIKE POTATOE!@!# HAW! I GET IT.  aisles with laughter at
                                              the absurdity of it all,
   I regretfully waste your time and space with this pointless attibution
   for the benefit of one greg Nowak ]

> }     Your failure to understand that imitation is
> }the sincerest form of flattery only serves to
> 
> The quotation goes : "Imitation is the sincerest confession of 
> ineptitude."

     That would be true if I were a one trick pony
whose only shtick was to imitate greg Nowak.  Hey,
I only used your favorite subject line, ace.  Let's
not get too carried away with your flattery.

     And with regard to using your favorite
subject line, I might add that another regular
poster to this newsgroup has also fairly recently
done same.  I shall not mention his name because
he's probably already hiding under his bed, sick
with guilt and self-loathing over it by now, poor
fellow.

> }     Now go sip a Pernod or whatever it is you
> }do in France, you little knucklehead.
> 
> That would be "hanging around the Jardin du Luxembourg with a
> sketchbook and picking up French babes", then. Thanks.

     Qool.  [ Please excuse this interruption to allow me the
              the opportunity to point out that gypsy first used
              this spelling for "cool."  Thank you all for your
              patience.  Thank you, gypsy, for the colorful
              addition to the mother tounge. ]

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