From: doug@eng.umd.edu (Douglas N. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Dougie-Poo
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 22:59:07 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, College of Engineering
Summary: a challenge?
Followup-To: doug:  < doug@eng.umd.edu > : < doug@lpf.umd.edu >
Keywords: who?  me????

In article <1992Apr8.205312.8062@uwm.edu> ninjam@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Marty aka Ninjam aka Who Cares...) writes:

>As I said before Doug, tell it to someone who cares.
>
>If any of the people I was having conversations with (Dave, Mary,
>ect...) had a dissagreement with what I was saying,  then they told me
>so, and politely, as I have been doing the same.  You seem to be the
>only one that has something to prove, and in a childish manner at that.
>You don't want to believe something I say, then fine, no one is
>telling you to, just as anyone else here can make up their mind in
>what they believe in.  Anything I have mentioned is from personal

	i thought i was supporting you in your claims to knowledge.... did
anyone think otherwise?  i was telling people what a treasure you are to 
this group.... sort of extolling your virtues....  what did i say that was
a cause for this tirade???  i'm totally shocked!!

>experience, or from personal conversation with some of your own peers
>here on rec.martial-arts.
>Your childish games have gone on long enough.  You seek to blackmail

	i have never sought to blackmail you or anyone else (except my
brother) either here or on the net in general or anywhere else....
where did there appear anything that even remotely suggests/suggested that?

>me, your harrass me in mail, you try and be judge and jury to

	who? me?  harrass you?  oh great and noble practitioner of so many
excellent arts, i beg your forgiveness for expressing your net worth (net worth 
i like that..... net worth.....) publically....  i must have embarrased your
humbleness... (ever read dickens?  david copperfield?  nawh, i didn't think so,
it might have interrupted your training and reading of other more worthy 
literature.....)
	you're right.  i should have asked others if i would be unduely
thrusting you into a spot light by pointing out your unbelievably excellent
qualities, expertise, and skills in the martial arts.  i don't think i am
qualified to judge anyone in your category.  i couldn't possibly claim your
level or call you a 'peer'.  i'm certainly gratified, however, that you call
some of these excellent posters on the group *my* peers.  while i know myself
to be totally unworthy to call them that, your generousity in such a designation
is beyond my wildest expectation.  i know i will never be worthy to call you my
peer..... but maybe one day, if i should master one simple skill, yo will send
me another little encouragement.  they mean *sO* *much!*!  thank you! thank you!

>everything I say because YOU feel I couldn't posibly know a thing
>because I'm only 21 years old.  You know nothing about me or what
>I do, or what experience I have. 

	i only know what you have told me, what you have written, and little 
else.  please.  bestow your many years of wisdom and experience on me!  i
hunger to learn your wisdom.... oh teach me, o master of the martial arts...

>If you want to drag this thing out further then get it over with
>allready, come over to Milwaukee tap your foot three times in
>front of me, and challenege me. Otherwise, take my comments as

	me?  challenge you?  oh what an unworthy honor!  i could never hope
to challenge you!!!  you are so far out of my class!  i would not wish to 
embarrass myself that way.  but thank yo for the kindess words yet!

>opinions based on a persons experience (which is what everyone's is),

	but, the first thing i did was to acknowledge that they were your
opinions!  the very first thing!  an i supported you through-out your
article!!!  i do not understand this tirade against somone so unworthy of
your attention..... i am, however, very flattered and honored by it!
oh thank you!  oh thank you!  twice thank you!

>and keep your petty bickering to yourself.
>

	oh no sir!  i would never bicker with one such as you, sir!!!  

>
>Marty

	aka ninjam aka .... ehr..... nka ..... erh um.....  sorry sir, the
proper title fails this unworthy one.  i beg your forgiveness....  sir....
	and, as always, i am/at:

             doug:  < doug@eng.umd.edu > : < doug@lpf.umd.edu >

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