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From: d40937@boole (Jean Yves Desbiens)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Michele : 180 articles in two weeks!!
Date: 23 Dec 92 06:41:44 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Seeing loads of Michele posts every day I had to verify something 
in news.lists, and yes he is in the top 25 with 180 articles
for 240Kb , 95% of which are in alt.flame. That means he posts
an average of 15 times a day all in the same group!!!
Please, Michele you just exceeded my tolerance to post spewing
peoples , some of your posts *may* be interesting but they are 
drowned in the quantity of low level LED intensity flames. 
Take more time to write a couple well conceived replies and
you may be kicked less often than now. Just pounching out 
at anything on any tread spreads you very thin flamage 
potential so much that everyone walks all over you.
Posting that much wouldn't be so bad if it was divided into
more newsgroups, that would demonstrate a more balanced life,
but bitching bitterly seems to be your one and only pastime. I pity you.
If you continue yapping all over every thread, I'll have to put you
into a kill file  with the likes of Serdar Argic
( the post spewing soc.culture.* guy ) and you won't like that I am sure.

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Etudiant en genie informatique      | 
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From: dallagata@fnala.fnal.gov (Michele Dall'Agata)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: CRAIG IS A WEENIE
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:33:01 -0600
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnala.fnal.gov

In article <Bzop7z.JE9@world.std.com>, martin@world.std.com (Martin J Hannigan) writes:
> OK. Here we is. Is Michele a MAN or a wo-MAN? I can't figure it out.
> Oh yes, The Topic - Craig is a fuckin weewee.
> 
Hu, ho, hi, ha, he, he, he.... The biggest asshole of the NET is upset 
because he thought that I was a woman, when I am a MAN! Idiot! You are the 
idiot that sent flaming e-mail to a lot of people. You are the idiot that 
answered to somebody else posts without to write anything. Hey, moron. I 
understand that you are an idiot, but before to start flame wars, LEARN HOW 
TO USE THE SYSTEM!!! You're not doing good. Get a life and a clue. You 
need that.

	Ciao, imbecile

		Michele
>
From: sperdomo@samson.hac.com (Sanin Perdomo)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Americans are Screwy
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:26:31 GMT
Reply-To: sperdomo@samson.hac.com
Organization: Hughes Training Incorporated, WCO

> >In article 724712962@sfu.ca, katherim@fraser.sfu.ca (Katherine "Cunt" Mason) writes:

> Now you need to resort to cursing.  I guess your US army training teaches
> you to do that well.  Along with flying the Canadian Flag and the Union
> Jack upside down.  Wow, I wish I had US army training.
> 
> Merry fucking Christmas,
> Katherine Merle Mason 
> Ne Oublie....

Who said I was in the US Army.  Please don't insult me!  The worse thing you can  do is accuse a Marine of being in the US Army.  Hey Miss Priss,  this is alt.flame; if you can't handle the cursing, then go to alt.priss.cunt.bitch. You really don't pay attention very well, do you?  You are a useless excuse for a female sub-human.

-cosmic
From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: a weekend without a bunny
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:02:05 GMT
 <k-m2zpk@rpi.edu> <WlW9s*GI0@prolix.apana.org.au> <tzq2mxm@rpi.edu>
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
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In article <tzq2mxm@rpi.edu>, James G. Keegan Jr. writes:

> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
> ->In article <k-m2zpk@rpi.edu>, James G. Keegan Jr. writes:
> ->> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
> ->> ->With mint sauce and a dash of garlic salt.
> ->> ->Or don't you like your meat seasoned, James?
> ->> 
> ->> are you referring to bunny meat, dac?
> 
> ->Not as such, no.
> 
> how then, dac, are you referring to "meat?"

Telepathetically.

Dac
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From: kev@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Kevin Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: For little ghost
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:58:55 GMT
Organization: Cursor Software Limited, London, England

In article <1992Dec20.180905.1@fnala.fnal.gov> dallagata@fnala.fnal.gov (Michele Dall'Agata) writes:
> In article <1181@dsbc.icl.co.uk>, kev@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Kevin Walsh) writes:
> > You say that you learned English with the physicists.  
> 
> Right.
> 
> > I suppose every
> > time one of them went to the bog, they said "Fuck off pizza-breath,
> > get your head out of the toilet.  Clean it when I'm finished" and you
> > soon picked up the lingo.  
> 
> Wrong. I learned english having fun, drinking beer, joking and picking up 
> girls. When I came here the first time, I had to report about my thesis 
> (parallel computers, not toilets...) to my Italian advisor, so, I did not 
> learn the english working. 
> 
So you went to America to pick up girls eh?  What's the matter with Italian
girls?  Oh, I see, they're all too FAT from eating all that pasta.

> > I expect this also accounts for the limited
> > vocabulary you use in your posts.
> 
> Maybe my english vocabulary is limited, but I speak other two languages.
>
Which languages do you speak then.  It's obvious that you have maybe a
little knowledge of Italian; it's also obvious that you couldn't speak
English to order a pizza.  So come on then, what languages do you think
you can speak/read/write etc.

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Newsgroups: alt.flame
From: Sparky
Subject: Re: please flame me
Summary: Re: please flame me
Keywords: Lame-o-rama
Organization: None
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:34:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.125806.14543@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ljarvie@nyx.cs.du.edu
(Lee Jarvie) writes:
>In article <199227.3465.4033@dosgate> "david elfstrom"
<david.elfstrom@canrem.com> writes:
>>I would like to get her a ring, but I don't know if I should.
>>Please flame me.
>>
>>David Elfstrom
>
>Dump her.
>
>
>*actually I believe quite the opposite of what I stated (assuming you 
>feel strongly about her), but you wanted a flame.  Sorry it's not that
>good.
>
>Lee
>

What a pack of wimpy, whiney newbies!  First some anal trickle
from soc.couples limps into alt.flame, begging for one up
the butt.  Then some gimp *attempts* a flame, achieves a 
monologue, contradicts everything he says, then APOLOGIZES!

God, you butt-buddies are lame-o-rama!  Go away somewhere,
strip down, pound on some drums.  But GO AWAY!

Sheesh!

--Sparky
From: dallagata@fnala.fnal.gov (Michele Dall'Agata)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: TEsting
Date: 21 Dec 92 12:41:18 -0600
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnala.fnal.gov

In article <1992Dec21.075214.8505@julian.uwo.ca>, morton@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Brent Morton) writes:
> In article <BzLJMr.Grz@world.std.com> martin@world.std.com (Martin J Hannigan) writes:
>>
>>I usually dont respond to weenies like yourself who post a begging for a
>>flame message. For some reason I feel you must be an Internet weenie hence
>>an alt.flame virgin. Well, you want to be flamed ?
>>
>>Listen you lowly piece of dead skin off of my pitbulls balls, why dont you
>>lick the peanuts off of my anal hairs, suck the wrinkles out of my shit
>>and eat it, and then blow me afterwards which I will them immediately
>>punch your fucking lights out for being a fag ?
> 
> What kind of a lowdown sonofabitch would write a message like this? Oh well,
> everyone who PAYS to read this newsgroup (like if you subscribe to some
> public access UNIX site) is a shithead anyway. But you already knew that.
> 
Sorry, if I contradict you, but I am sure that he did not know that. And I 
think that it will take a long time to explain this to him. But we will. 
For sure.

	Michele
Newsgroups: alt.flame
From: katherim@fraser.sfu.ca (Katherine Merle Mason)
Subject: Re: Americans are Screwy
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:35:55 GMT

sperdomo@samson.hac.com (Sanin Perdomo) writes:

>In article 724712962@sfu.ca, katherim@fraser.sfu.ca (Katherine "Cunt" Mason) writes:
>> 
>> I got the idea lame-brain.  You are so simple-minded that it didn't take
>> much.  Defending him/her self from freeway shootings is still more urgent
>> to the average yank than defense from invaders.  Who is going to invade
>> the US?  Canada?  Russia?  Mexico?  Somalia perhaps?  Get real.  Get your
>> priorities straight.

>You still don't get it bitch.  Try again.

>-cosmic

Now you need to resort to cursing.  I guess your US army training teaches
you to do that well.  Along with flying the Canadian Flag and the Union
Jack upside down.  Wow, I wish I had US army training.

Merry Christmas,
Katherine Merle Mason 
Ne Oublie....
From: mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Mark)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: British Empire? No way!
Date: 21 Dec 92 09:52:37 GMT
Organization: Physical Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ
Originator: mark@joule.pcl


In article <1992Dec20.185754.1@fnala.fnal.gov>, dallagata@fnala.fnal.gov (Michele Dall'Agata) writes:
> In article <1195@dsbc.icl.co.uk>, kev@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Kevin Walsh) writes:
> >>
> >> Ok, you have a job. What about the bastard british scums of Liverpool?
> >>
> > What does that mean?  You can't bad-mouth our football clubs like that.
> > Even if they are northern and get thrashed by Crystal Palace.
> >> 
> >> What does it mean?!? If you do not know what that means, it is better that 
> >> you get a new life.
> >>
> > Maybe you could enlighten us, Michelle.  What do you mean?
> 
> I was not speaking about british-football-club-scums. And you know that. I 
> was speaking about your fucking city of Liverpool. How many people is 
> without a job, overthere? You know, moron, you british use to claim that 
> your fucking island is civilized (HA HA HA HA HA!!! ok, I feel better now).
> And then the most hated people on Europe are the british. You know, bastard, 
> you did not answer about the fact of Bruxelles, nobody from your island 
> wanted to speak about that. WHY? The first time that I posted against 
> british, I put many facts, about how much scums are the British. NOBODY DID 
> ANSWER. And you pretend that I answer to your stupid kid joke of the toilet.
> Why didn't you answer? It is so easy to attack americans because they can 
> have (and use) a gun. But, what about you, british animals? How can you 
> claim to be civilized?!? You have the most dirty country of Europe (fact),
> you're always drunk and dangerouses (fact), your fucking government 
> protected the fucking criminal-animals that made a massacre at the game 
> Juventus-Liverpool (fact). Nobody forgot that in Italy, remember. 
> Your fucking newspapers often write bullshit about Italy, while we write 
> facts about you. You lie, you can't compare with the truth, and so you 
> invent false facts. We are on an international NET here. Answer, now. You 
> can't defend any position about that, you can only admit it. If you don't, 
> well, it will mean that kill-file is always ready.
> 
> 	Michele
> 
> ===========================================================================
> I wish to everybody a real BAD Christmas. I hope that your fathers will die
> doing the role of Santa Claus that come down from the chimney. I wish that
> your planes blow out while you are going back home to meet your families.
> Have a Christmas Drink and Drive accident, get as many DUI as you can.
> And, Last but not Least, FUCK YOURSELF, again.
> ===========================================================================


Fuck you, disk head.  I cant be fucked to read all your article, 'cause it
starts of with loads mof crap.  You dont have a clue about England.  It is
very civilized, we have a few jerks that put a bad name on the country, but
whey are a minority.

-- 
Mark
From: morton@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Brent Morton)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: TEsting
Date: 21 Dec 92 07:52:14 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada

In article <BzLJMr.Grz@world.std.com> martin@world.std.com (Martin J Hannigan) writes:
>In article <9212130807.AA23867@relay2.UU.NET> john@uwm.edu writes:
>>testing
>>Flame me if you wish, Bye, bye.
>
>I usually dont respond to weenies like yourself who post a begging for a
>flame message. For some reason I feel you must be an Internet weenie hence
>an alt.flame virgin. Well, you want to be flamed ?
>
>Listen you lowly piece of dead skin off of my pitbulls balls, why dont you
>lick the peanuts off of my anal hairs, suck the wrinkles out of my shit
>and eat it, and then blow me afterwards which I will them immediately
>punch your fucking lights out for being a fag ?

What kind of a lowdown sonofabitch would write a message like this? Oh well,
everyone who PAYS to read this newsgroup (like if you subscribe to some
public access UNIX site) is a shithead anyway. But you already knew that.
From: andy@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Andy Hart)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: andy hart's short term memory loss
Summary: I know I'm ignoring you, but I couldn't resist.
Keywords: Look Ma! I can edit too!
Date: 22 Dec 92 08:37:47 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <z#s2tbj@rpi.edu> keegan@acm.rpi.edu (James G. Keegan Jr.) writes:
>sucking up to andy now.


oooh.  aaahhh.

-- Andy
From: dallagata@fnala.fnal.gov (Michele Dall'Agata)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: What a load of crap!
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:36:19 -0600
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnala.fnal.gov

In article <1992Dec23.120341.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, accy043@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
> A message to all flame throwers,
> 
> GROW UP

What the fucking hell does it mean?!?!?!?
> 
> and,
> 
> Try and read some other groups, who knows you may even like them, and you
> may even stop posting all this crap.

I read them. They are boring. They think to be intelectuals, but they are 
just bullshit. Like you. Our crap is better than their repeatitive *nothing*.
> 
> This may sound like a flame, it is not.  It is merely a spark.

A spark?!? That sounds like a lame. 

> 
> Brendan.

	Michele
> 
> BrendanQ@accy.canterbury.ac.nz
>
From: kev@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Kevin Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: HAVE : GUN --- WANT : BULLETS
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:09:55 GMT
Organization: Cursor Software Limited, London, England

In article <1992Dec21.124325.1@fnala.fnal.gov> dallagata@fnala.fnal.gov (Michele Dall'Agata) writes:
> In article <1992Dec21.080418.9051@julian.uwo.ca>, morton@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Brent Morton) writes:
> > 
> > You'd be surprised; I hear 20 or so  percent of Americans can't find their own
> > goddamned country on a world map, and 10% can't even find the United States on
> > a map of the United States.
> 
> Shhh! Do not say this to americans. They think that the world is USA.
> 
Talking of maps and wops.  Why is Italy shaped like a boot?
Because you couldn't get that much shit in a shoe.

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From: andy@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Andy Hart)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Keegan's Hypocrisy  [Was Re: andy hart's short term memory loss]
Summary: It ain't forgery when Jimmy Jr. does it... it's Flamin'!
Keywords: Will Jimmy demand an apology?  Hold yer breath, pencil-neck.
Date: 24 Dec 92 09:06:35 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <2zs2#yr@rpi.edu> keegan@acm.rpi.edu (James G. Keegan Jr.) writes:
>that poor twit andy hart is forging quotes, and after
>only a few weeks too. heh.


Just practicing your style of contextual circumcision, Jimmy.  heh.

-- Andy
From: cress@centurion.ksu.ksu.edu (Garrett C Cress)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: TEsting
Date: 31 Dec 1992 18:30:37 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: centurion.ksu.ksu.edu


>morton@artifis.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Brent Morton) writes:
>>cress@endeavor.ksu.ksu.edu (Garrett C Cress) writes:

>>Well anyway, more to the point...
>>I'm sure you've also heard the fact that Kansas State ranks one, two,
>>or three in the country in engineering, ag and journalism programs.
>>
>Ah, how to approach this one? Is that "one, two, or three" hundred? One, two,
>or three in which country? No, no. no... I have it: what you meant to say was
>that Kansas State ranks one, two, or three in the COUNTY. Congratulations on
>attending such a fine institution.
>

In your meaningless babblings above which probably represent extremely deep 
thought to you, you do manage to say one thing correctly; K-State *is* a fine
institution.
Allow me to restate so your meager excuse for a brain can grasp this.  K-State
ranks first, second, or third in the above programs in the United States, which
is a countRy, not a county.
Maybe that cold Canadian air is affecting you somehow.

Garrett
From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: a weekend without a bunny
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 11:59:59 GMT
 <k-m2zpk@rpi.edu> <WlW9s*GI0@prolix.apana.org.au> <tzq2mxm@rpi.edu> <dQcbs*QL0@prolix.apana.org.au>
 <vcy2w8f@rpi.edu>
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00

In article <vcy2w8f@rpi.edu>, James G. Keegan Jr. writes:

> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:

> ->> how then, dac, are you referring to "meat?"
> 
> ->Telepathetically.
> 
> can you be a bit more precise?

Ask Kebbin. You reckon he's a fine arbiter of taste, NOT! So
whatever he says, take the opposite meaning, and insert that into
the original [no doubt long forgotten] equation, and see what
transpires. My guess is that you'll find that there is no firm
answer. If it was firm, it would be in a different nomenclature.

Toodle pip.

Dac
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From: dallagata@fnala.fnal.gov (Michele Dall'Agata)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Michele's Sig
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:29:30 -0600
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnala.fnal.gov

In article <1992Dec21.140120.23415@nrtpa038.bnr.ca>, Sparky writes:
> 
> Michele, this post is the perfect!  If you for to not to post again, you
> have to made a summarization of all your previous posts!  Bravisimo! And
> from your sig I for to gather much laughter!  Oh, I must but for to clarify
> something to you.  My father does not "come down from the chimney".  My
> father cums in your sister's mouth, you fucking ungrateful wop.  You are
> here, suckling from the tit of "mother America", grasping American dollars
> in your greasy little shit-smelling fists, and all you can do is insult your
> betters.  Go home, monkey boy.  The mafiosos are tiring of your mother.  They
> want to fuck you for a while.  Ho! Ho! Ho!  Your mother is a ho!
> --Sparky


Sparky, Sparky, Sparky. If you think that to flame is to write unpolite 
bullshit, you have big problems. 

Anyway, I see that you complain a lot about money. Uhmm... the picture that 
I have about you, now, is a guy that is proud to make big money, that does 
not have any value anymore, that does not give a shit for *anything* and 
that for few thousands bucks can sell his mother. And, worst of all, he (you)
thinks to be right. You are wrong, moron. Get a life's clue.

My mother doesn't fuck with mafiosos. I hate Mafia, and, remember, Mafia 
exists because the people care *so much* about money, like you seem to do.

	Michele
From: leonardo@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul Scott Bartelt)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Where are the women?!?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 07:12:14 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

>> Strange...everywhere you go, all people of the opposite gender
>> kind of go away.  I wonder why that is?  Hmmmm....

>> Garrett

>Ok, I knew that I was going to deal with such a flame. I hoped that nobody 
>thought that, but I finally see that alt.flame is not always a bunch of 
>morons. Good flame, even if it is still a Christmas problem. My bet is that
>after Christmas, they'll be back. And more then before. They know that I am 
				                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>here...
^^^^^^^^

>Michele

	That's because they can smell your stench, even over the net...

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From: dvp@oasis.icl.co.uk (Dave Parry)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Get Stuffed!
Date: 22 Dec 92 09:53:35 GMT
Organization: The Mountains of Madness
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

FLAME OFF :

To Michele, Rob, Andy, Leonardo, Liz, JORN, TROLL and Jim

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FLAME ON :

Ah, two weeks without having to read the drivel that passes for flames
in alt.flame (I would add a :-) but it's so uncool these days).

Get stuffed

Dave
From: dvp@oasis.icl.co.uk (Geezer)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: For little ghost
Date: 21 Dec 92 09:42:30 GMT
Organization: The Mountains of Madness
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

dallagata@fnala.fnal.gov (Michele Dall'Agata) writes:
> 
> ===========================================================================
> I wish to everybody a real BAD Christmas. I hope that your fathers will die
> doing the role of Santa Claus that come down from the chimney. I wish that
> your planes blow out while you are going back home to meet your families.
> Have a Christmas Drink and Drive accident, get as many DUI as you can.
> And, Last but not Least, FUCK YOURSELF, again.
> ===========================================================================

Have a happy holiday yourself Michele.

Dave
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