From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.greek
Subject: re: continuation on Cyprus
Date: 19 Dec 1992 20:40:08 -0600
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Besime Erin (bse@wherever) "(*" writes:
(* >The TRNC side has only demonstrated that it can pump up its people (i.e.
(* >Besime Erin) with booklets, leaflets, and 80% majorities for 20 years.
(*  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
(* >to make sure I get to stay that way, I'd vote Denktash till his bones
(* >disintegrate. (I'd vote for Besime after that). And I would do nothing
(*                              ^^^^^^
(* Oh, GET OFF my back, Spiros!

Did you ring, Madam?

(* You don't even know me.

I don't even know Arxid. So?

(* I do not like the way you discuss things nor do I like the way you see
(* the Cyprus problem or the angle at which you take it.

I am sooooo distressed. Would you rather have me perform Turk-o-phonics
on your name on a regular basis, post Makarios' letter a few dozen times
a day, or talk about the Jews of Rhodes like your idol Mr. Arxid? [*]

(hint #1: Spiros can't do it and get away with it, but Arxid can)

Let us examine this a bit further, shall we:

1. the way I discuss things - quite a bit more civilized than Mr. Arxid,
   the nonexisting Mr. Bozturk, or a few more. Quite a bit more 
   entertaining, also. 

2. the way I see the Cyprus problem - do I need to have a Vulcan Mind Melt 
   with you to discuss Cyprus? Do I have to have my family house donated to 
   Mr. and Mrs. Mehmet of Ismir (they can vote, yea!) or do I have to be 
   Mr. Mehmet to discuss Cyprus? 

3. The angle at which I take it - If you bothered to read my articles to
   the end you'd see that my own position on the subject is "let them
   live separately, have different COUNTRIES if it will help save lives,
   but get rid of as many of the settlers as possible, armies, and attempt 
   (thru a neutral party) to negotiate compensation for the properties lost
   to both sides.  I sympathise with the losses of both sides but if it is
   either that or Lebanon/Yugoslavia, the choice is simple. [*]

(* I also do not like the way you continually are on the case of Turkish people
(* (even when you are not provoked, you post articles in soc.culture.turkish etc.)

Could it be I am Arxid's mirror image (sans the quotes and Ahmet C. on the
console screening out unwanted messages)??? Hey, if your guy can dish out
his 'message' I can too, no? 

(hint #2: Spiros can't do it and get away with it, but Arxid can)

Last time I checked it was legal to post in soc.culture.turkish, and HELL,
most of my Cyprus messages have not even been posted there. Perhaps
I should go into Arxid emulation mode and post in 50 groups at a time...

(* You have no clue what I really think of the Cyprus problem or the Greek Cypriot.

Yes, I have not had the pleasure to 'fullfil my emotional needs' with you. 

(* I do understand your dislike towards me because of the personal attacks I have
(* pursued towards you in the past and recent past.

So you do understand... Good. Goooood. [*]

(* BUT, you have asked me to quit calling you names and I did.

And yet posted a PMS-driven drivel that you stopped calling me names because
you WANTED it and not because I ASKED you to or because it's the right
thing to do... Typical 3 year old wanting to have the last word.
(Copy of drivel article is somewhere in my hard disk, I'm sure...)

(* Now it's your turn to quit referring to me in your articles(i.e. quit using me
(* as a "sample Turkish Cypriot" in a negative way ) because you really don't know.

I think it's time for me to invent a hypothetical Turkish Cypriot. Hold
on, while my USENET Genetic Ethnic Synthesizer processes the request....
bzzzt bzzzt denk denk tash tash boing sipa sipa delc delc. CRASH!

Done. His name is Nire' Emiseb :-). Now, generate me a Macedonian.....
bzzzt bzzt sas sas SAS SAS $ segmentation fault. skopje dumped.

(* Besime Erin 

Today's moral conclusions are in paragraphs marked with a [*]

Spiros Triantafyllopoulos
(the one and only true master of the analogy as a debating technique).
--
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