From: art@world.std.com (Al Thompson)
Subject: Re: SC rally: "We don't want a draft dodger for president!"
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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	<1992Sep11.145525.1488@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:27:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.145525.1488@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> lafave@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov (Dr. Norman J. LaFave) writes:

   In article <ART.92Sep11032801@world.std.com>, art@world.std.com (Al Thompson) writes:
   > 
   > In article <1992Sep10.211451.8458@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> lafave@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov (Dr. Norman J. LaFave) writes:
   > 
   >    In article <ART.92Sep10114135@world.std.com>, art@world.std.com (Al Thompson) writes:
   >    > 
   >    > In article <1992Sep9.215511.18804@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> lafave@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov (Dr. Norman J. LaFave) writes:
   >    > 
   >    >    In article <2AAE62CF.11063@news.service.uci.edu>, harvey@cafws1.eng.uci.edu (Harvey Chen) writes:
   >    >    > 
   >    > 
   >    >    > >Oh yeah, I always trust my local beer-swizzling red-necks with fifth
   >    >    > >grade educations to give me their in-depth political commentary :-).
   >    >    > >
   >    >    > >Seiously though... this is just another irrelevancy in a long string of
   >    >    >    ^^^
   >    >    >      Talk about fifth grade educations....please....:)
   >    >    > 
   >    >    > >irrelevancies being bandied about. It just proves that Bush can fool
   >    >    > >some of the people most of the time.
   >    >    > >
   >    >    > >Dr. Norman J. LaFave
   >    >    > 
   >    >    > 
   >    > 
   >    >    Oh, I'm so sorry I didn't run my post through a spell checker. I was a very
   >    >    naughty boy and the net.spelling.police should take away my license.
   >    >    :-/
   >    > 
   >    >    Dr. Norman J. LaFave
   >    > 
   >    > Well, Dr. you were the one who banged somebody else for not using his
   >    > spelling cheker.  Since you're a Dr. I would think your spelling chequer
   >    > would be between your ears.
   >    > 
   >    > 
   >    Actually, I assumed that people on this newsgroup weren't shallow enough
   >    or rude enough to critique my typing. I guess I was wrong.
   > 
   > No you asshole, it's because you criticized somebody else's spelling with
   > a misspelling.  You show you are an idiot when you do that.  Not too clever
   > for a Ph.d.

   The "mispelling" you refer to was an honest typing error, nothing more. 
   Furthermore, I have NEVER corrected someone's spelling in a posting.

No, that's correct, you just criticized "rednecks" for having a "fifth
grade educations".  You sneer at, and look down your nose at people whose
work pays your salary.

  It is
   rude, obnoxious, irrelevant, and pointless to do so. If you had any class at
   all, you could have sent this tripe by e-mail, but no, you had to sit in your
   smug little world patting yourself on the back, congratulating yourself on
   embarassing someone you don't even know. I have news for you Al, I could care
   less what you think of me. You don't even know me well enough to ground this
   venemous attack in any kind of factual basis.

Gee, Dr. when you sneer at others in public as ignorant louts you open
yourself up to public rejoinders.  I wouldn't have jumped on you if you
hadn't called them "beer-swizzling red-necks with fifth grade
educations".  I know everybody makes spelling mistakes, but when you hold
yourself out as somehow more intelligent or better educated you assume an
obligation to demonstrate this status.

Speaking of factual basis I'm still waiting for your proof that The
National Review misrepresents its facts.

   > 
   > Let me tell you something Mr. Doc. You are such a hotshot (all we have to
   > do is ask you) that you can't figure out there are others of us out here
   > who also are Doktors and who are so offended by your nose in the air
   > attitude that we just can't resist shoving your nose in it.

   Nose in the air? What do you call this tripe you are shovelling?

Well, I didn't refer to the stock car racing fans as having fifth grade
educations and thus making them somehow beneath me.

   When did I call you names on the net? When did I question you're
   intelligence, credentials or degrees? When did I ever attempt to embarass you
   to the degree you have attempted here? This is about the rudest, most
   obnoxious attack I have ever encountered on this newsgroup. You could
   have at least had enough class to spill this swill via e-mail....but NOOOOO
   you just had to see your own smug little drivel spewed for the masses.
   How conceited can you get!

You're the one who publicly hurled the slurs at others who don't have
your level of education.  Look up at the top of this post, the quote is
still there.

   > Just who the
   > hell do you think you are anyway?  Do you think you are the only guy, or
   > gal who worked to get a Ph.D?

   Since it is obvious that you cannot read, I will explain one more time. The
   title is part of an official Lockheed .sig. My company believes it helps in
   the obtaining of contracts if I use my title in official e-mail. However,
   I made massive sacrifices in order to obtain this degree and I shouldn't have
   to defend my title to you or anyone else.

Again, so what if you worked to get your Ph.D.  Thousands of others did
too.

   > As I said, the only time I ever mentioned
   > my doktorate on this net was when I became offended at your nose in the
   > air attitude.

   When did I ever claim to be smarter than you or anyone Dr. Thompson?
   Let's see some proof.

Look up above where you sneer at the intellectual development of stock
car racing fans.  If that's not a claim to being smarter, or at least
somehow better informed I don't know what would be.

   > As I have said, you pompous ass, I and lot of others
   > worked just as hard, put up with just as much shit, and lived in just as
   > much poverty as you did,

   I'm sorry to hear that. So why are you so ashamed of that degree you earned?
   Nobody should ever have to apologize for working hard and achieving a
goal.

I'm no ashamed of it, I just happened to have learned that it was
considered pompous to lord my degree over others.

   > so, again, just who the hell do you think your
   > are?

   I am just one of many posters on this newsgroup trying to have a civil,
   enjoyable debate on the issues in this election. So far, most people who
   have disagreed with my opions have done so in a civil manner. I have
   high praise for Mark Evert for example. He never gets personal and shows
   a high degree of flexibility and intelligence in his postings. You could
   learn alot from him Herr Doctor.

Then you shouldn't sneer at others.

   > 
   >    Dr. Norman J. LaFave
   > 
   > Allan R. Thompson, Ph.D.
   > 
   > PS  What does the J. stand for?  Jerk?

   Joseph. What does the R. stand for?  Rude?
   > 
   > 

   Dr. Norman J. LaFave