From: patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Look what the NetMail brought this morning...
Summary: Who said advertising didn't pay? :-)
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:20:04 GMT

In article <83130@ut-emx.uucp> andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:
>patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
>>-------start Fidonet mail, 1-------
>>Patrick:
>>
>>Get lost, asshole.
>
>Whoops.  He sent you the first line of his laundry list.

Looks like it, all right.  Maybe that's why he's been absent lately...:-)

>And there's STILL an extra comma there.
>
>>I don't even believe you're married. No woman in her right mind would
>>marry a man like you. 
>
>Fine...I guess I have to call Houston now.  Patrick, your phone number is
>in your finger entry, right?

It's in there, but my .plan is uuencoded -- so check the .sig on the end of
this article.  (No big deal -- before I started manually inserting my own
comments, my auto-.sig had one of my home *and* one of my work numbers in
it, and I got precisely *one* call from a loony-tune pro-lifer:  the
infamous David "Thanks mommy, for dropping me on my head when I was three!"
Rasmussen.)

>To the net at large: Sometime over the next week, I will call Houston,
>without warning Patrick first, and will ask for Dale Ann.  If they act
>confused, or otherwise don't respond within normal parameters, then
>I'll post that.
>
>Patrick, this OK with you?  (Yes, I may be overreacting, but hey -- that's
>nothing new.)

Hey, it's okay with me -- besides, it's not overreacting, it's just the
Texan way of doing things. :-)  One caution, though -- my wife should be
returning to work in the next week or so, so you'll get better results if
you call after about 4:30 (because then, you get me, too -- such a deal).
Friday nights, we're bowling the late league, so we're gone after about 8.
The weekends are pot luck -- if it's a weekend when I'm off, we may be just
about anywhere; if I'm at work, she'll be at home.

(Aren't you glad you asked? :-)

>>(And I insult all men on Earth by grouping you among them...) 
>
>Untrue.  I'm not insulted.  QED.
>
>Actually, I suppose I'd better forestall the obvious retort.  Steve, how
>exactly am I *not* a man?
>
>Physically, I've pretty much stopped growing, I have all the characteristics
>of a fully-grown human male past sexual maturity, and I shave every other
>morning because I'm lazy.

Got you beat there -- I quit shaving about four years ago, though I *do*
trim the growth back every couple of weeks.  (For some reason, my kin at
home in Kentucky seem to think I'm a pretty respectable double for Ray
Stevens.  I don't know if that's good or bad news.  :-)

>Mentally, I have made up my mind about most issues, but am willing to hear
>opposing arguments which aren't utterly inane.  Further, I'm capable of
>reasoning out a problem, given enough time, and have been shown to not be
>deficient in a medical sense.
>
>Legally, I can drive, vote, drink, enter into contracts, own property, go
>to jail for my actions, and, yes, engage in sex without sending my partner
>to prison.
>
>Am I missing something, or are you just slandering me?

You're not missing anything, from what I can see -- it's just Steve's relfex
reaction to anyone who disagrees with him.  

>>You are a habitual LIAR - both in your lies about me and
>>your claim that you aren't a racist. Only a racist would make the comment
>>you made about my race, in addressing me.
>
>What comment?  He said you were black, or, more specifically, that your
>fat ass was black.  Well?  Isn't it?
>
>Now, if you're upset about the "fat ass" part of the comment, that's a
>just complaint, IMO, but calling Patrick a racist is quite a stretch.
>(Calling me one would be just as much of a stretch, at least according to
>my ex-SO.) I think the comment was ill-advised, but that's all I intend
>to say on the issue -- it's OVER.

Amen to that.  It *was* ill-advised, I owned up to it, I apologized for it
-- end of tale, except for one professional malcontent who needs a chip on
his shoulder at all times, apparently.

>>And even if I do believe what I say about your wife, you can do
>>nothing about it. Comprende, straw boy?
>
>Point?

Not from Steve.  Pointless is more like it.

>>I don't want to see your e-mail around here, Patrick. Scan my account
>>and read my .plan all you want to and bitch and moan about how I won't
>>read yours, but keep your filthy presence OUT of my mailbox.
>
>Pot.  Kettle.  Iron.  (why take chances?)

I prefer The Club, myself. :-)

Patrick L. Humphrey, Rice University Networking & Computing Systems curmudgeon
+1 713 528-3626 or 527-4989 here at Rice.
+1 713 981-5952 (preferred) or 776-1541 at home.
(Member Emeritus of The Committee to Hunt Down and Permanently Kill Elvis in
good standing since 1979)

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