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From: akao@.com (Adam Kao)
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:42:31 GMT
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>Seems Adam is incapable of answering a question directed at him.  Or is it
>that he doesn't know the answer?

Yes, that's it.

>>	What's a *plonk* anyway?  You drop something?

>"Plonk" is the sound of his brain rolling out of his ear and wettly
>hitting the floor like a pea-sized gob of snot.

*plonk*, loosely, means "you are so clueless that it would take me a
long time to explain to you how clueless you are," which applies to
everything posted to this thread by Oleg, Desiree, and now Monica.

I've been going too fast.  Also, I've been lazy.  I actually thought,
you being oldbies, that I could be obscure and you might get it.
I overestimated you.

Given that you've been *plonk*ed, this will be a long explanation.

My original post was neither flame nor suckup.  It was test, and bait.
I wished to see how Desiree might react to a seeming newbie who
expressed an honest dislike of her without actually attacking.
I figured Desiree might be intelligent enough not to flame immediately.
I figured Desiree's most likely response would be haughty indifference,
maybe even "I'm ignoring you" silence.

I never expected Oleg to appoint himself her lap-dog and attack.
My two quick jabs were intended to draw Oleg in and make him angry
enough to make a mistake.  I must admit, I wondered if Oleg might
totally devastate me with his reply, given his long flaming history.

When I saw Oleg's reply, I couldn't stop laughing.  On the primary
level, it completely ignored the substance of my jabs, while on the
secondary level lay nothing but that boring edited Followup-To: trick.
It might even have worked, except that Oleg couldn't resist hinting at
his cleverness with "don't reply" and "apropriate forum".  Such tired
tactics from the great Oleg Kiselev himself?

I had to laugh in Oleg's face at his lame attempt.  It didn't seem
necessary to explain his failure to the entire group; I figured the
smart ones would notice, and I really only wanted to make sure Oleg
knew he had underestimated me.

The best reply was *plonk*.  On the primary level, it pointed out that
he was being clueless to talk politics, and on the secondary level, it
pointed out that he was being clueless to think me a newbie.  And, as
a bit of talk.bizarre slang, it reinforced the point that I know my
way around the net.

It's quite possible Oleg was only playing stupid, but I've
overestimated him once, and Desiree seems to think his reply actually
said something relevant, so I explain his failure in detail.

I don't give a shit about Oleg's precious politics.  My jabs would
have been unchanged (excepting quoted material) if Oleg's .sig had
said "Don't blame me, I hate broccoli."  My point, then and now, is
that it was a stupid excuse for a .sig, and that it isn't Oleg's only
stupid excuse.  (And I didn't have anything "relevant" to add because
Oleg's own wonderful words said it all for me.)

And now Desiree jumps in!  What, your lap-dog not doing the job?
Desiree's critique and question really deserve another *plonk*.


Summing up:


Oleg, such a disappointment.  I remember the days when you
singlehandedly terrorized entire newsgroups.  Now here you are,
reduced to picking on the young and (seemingly) helpless.  Don't you
want a challenge?  Why don't you take, say, Blair Houghton over in
talk.bizarre?  Or John "INFIDEL" Wojdyl(l?)o in rec.arts.books?  Or
how about long-time favorite Mikhail Zeleny in alt.sex?

The Old Oleg crafted insults of substance and made them stick.  Now,
with occasional prodding from Desiree, you come up with the ancient
edited Followup-To: trick, and the hilariously misdirected "please,
get a brain."  But then, I guess I didn't give you much material.
Sorry about that.


Desiree, put more substance in your critiques, instead of this
no-brainer one-size-fits-all "Oooh, that was a *goood* one!"
You might learn something from this:

"I can't believe you flamed someone's _smileys_, if I sank that low
I'd be flaming _spelling_ (yes, Oleg?).  That you think this stuff
worthy of insult shows only your narrowminded parochialism."


Monica, familiar name but I can't quite place it.  I might remember
after reading you more.


All of you: things are not always what they seem.  Don't be so quick
to assume something (someone) you don't understand must be stupid.


Adam

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