From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
Subject: Re: Loren and Heather should bicker in person, not on net
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:17:36 GMT

In <lefty-181292170344@lefty.apple.com> lefty@apple.com (Lefty) writes:

...in his usual flaming style, always without giving a clue as to what
the flaming is justified by.

>> Mr. Anderson
>Lefty

>Here we have an excellent example of the Common Newbie Nematode.  After
>contributing nothing to any discussion other than his belief that women who
>are raped never get pregnant, and his occasional yelps of "Attaboy, Loren!"
>Mr. Anderson shares with us his belief that "99% of the rest of the net"
>would rather not listen to Heather quite ably skewering Mr. Finkelstein for
>being such a completely clueless fool.

>Seems as though your hero is getting the worst of things here, Mr.
>Anderson.  You might do better to quietly slink away.  If you keep jumping
>up and down, yelling, "Don't hurt him!  Don't hurt him!" you're bound to
>attract attention to yourself.

I'm not doing any of the above, by the way.  I missed out on all the
really substanitive arguments due to netserver failure, and all I'm 
hearing are trivial little echoes that do not justify anything Lefty
is saying--not that I have *ever* seen Lefty give *any* justification
for *any* of his flaming comments.

>> I suppose flames are a constitutional right, but let's *all* try
>> and keep them to a minimum, ok?  (I admit to my own guilt and
>> agree to help)

>I have a better idea.  Why don't you take yourself down to the nearest
>highway, lie down in the express lane, and work on perfecting your
>impression of a median divider?

This is run-of-the-mill, all in a day's play flaming by Lefty.  The really
good stuff comes when he goes after Darcy, when you get to read about
driving stakes through the heart and that sort of thing.

"...de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"
			--Danton, almost exactly 200 years ago, cheerleading
			  the French revolutionaries

[Translation given at the end of the Quote of the Hour, after my "signature".
Against Darcy, Lefty seems to get into the same frenzy as the Jacobins 
during the reign of terror 200 years ago.]

>> And, ftr, I believe the term is "pom pon", not "pompom";
>> not that I agree to the above accusation, of course.

>For the record, you haven't got the slightest, foggiest fuck of an idea
>what you're talking about.  The term is most certainly "pom pom".

Note the escalation in the language level.  Too bad Mr. Anderson
did not say, "FYI, the correct spelling is `pom pon'."  Then you would
have seen some real fireworks from Lefty instead of this wishy-washy
gutter language, which is almost boring compared to his best productions.

>Hie thee hence, Mr. Anderson.  Take that single, lonely neuron of yours
>with you when you go.

This is more like it.  Keep those insults coming, Lefty.  You'd bore
us to tears (or maybe have us in stitches) if you ever tried posting
what you think of as a rational argument on abortion.

Peter Nyikos

Quote of the hour: 

[note the reference to posting-up in the third line :-)]

September 2 [1792] was a Sunday, with few people at work: there was every 
opportunity for inflammatory oratory...At dawn the Commune issued a 
proclamation, posted up all over Paris: "TO ARMS, CITIZENS, TO ARMS, THE 
ENEMY IS AT OUR GATES!" (So far was the enemy from the gates that it 
required two days of hard riding to reach Paris from the lost fortress
[of Verdun], and the Duke of Brunswick managed to use up the next twelve 
days in advancing just twenty miles.)  The orators whipped up all who would
listen to them into a frenzy of mingled anger and fear.  Danton donned
a scarlet cloak and went to the Assembly, insisting that his wife Gabrielle
(who hated crowds and public debates) come with him...The tocsin was 
about to be rung again, he declared:
	
	Whoever refuses to serve in person, or to return his arms, will
	suffer the death penalty.  When the tocsin sounds, it is not an
	alarm signal; it sounds the charge against our country's enemies.
	And to defeat them, gentlemen, we need audacity, yet more audacity,
	always audacity, and France will be saved!

		From _The Guillotine and the Cross_, by Warren H. Carroll
		Trinity Communications, Manassas, VA 1986, pp. 39-40




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