From: sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.flame
Subject: Re: One line bio (cont.)
Date: 23 Jul 92 07:09:39 GMT
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department

Folks, this is going to be long and drawn out.  Sorry about
the mess.

milliken@athena.cs.uga.edu (Brewmeister) writes:
>Uh, Sho: A couple of remarks are in order here.
>1.  The correct spelling is listen, not "lissen".
>2.  Addressing me as "honey", combined with the Freudian slip "butt", provide
>    ample evidence of your latent homosexuality.

Lissen is actualy spelt "listen"?  Excuse me wile I lookit
up in my dicktionairy.  <flip, flip, flip>  Yup.  Your write!
Gosh.  I guess I should work on my speling.  Sorry, about
that, honey butt.

>>but glad you managed to post this orgasmatronic bit of
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Here we have an interesting word.  Even as well read as I am, I have never
>run across this particular adjective before. 

Hmmm... I guess I shouldn't have chosen to match wits with
one so well read as yourself.  Why don't you post a list of
all the books that you've read recently.  I'm sure the gang
would just ADORE it.  Gosh, they may even WORSHIP you for it!

Really, though, dear... I'm surprised you haven't come
across this neologism before, what with your extensive
reading and all.  You yourself said it was an interesting
word.  Leave it at that.  Enjoy it.

>>One of these days when you're sleeping with your teddy [...]
>You plagerized this little bit of witlessness from a bad ninja movie.  

Plagerized?  You see, honey, this is one of the reasons why
we don't do spelling flames around here.  Everyone, even
those who are as well read as yourself, makes mistakes.
They are hardly interesting.  Even worse, you may be flaming
someone who has, for reasons you don't seem to be able to
grasp, chosen to use a phonetic spelling. 

[now, back to musical one-upsmanship]
>Trust ME.  I'm from Athens, GA if you weren't observant enough to look.  Ever
>heard of Athens, GA Sho?  It's where numerous quality bands started out.  I
>was listening to R.E.M., the B-52's, and numerous other now famous bands, years
>before you ever heard of them.  They got their start playing in local nightclubslike the 40 Watt Club.  I was hearing these bands play when you were still in
>junior high school.  

This is exactly the kind of tripe I was hoping we could
avoid.  In retrospect, it was probably stupid for me to have
said anything.  I should have let you rag on Eno and spout
off about Jello Biafra without batting an eye, hoping that
others wouldn't follow suit.  Be that as it may, my
intentions were to avoid this kind of "I know more about
music than you do" bullshit.  It's happened before, and all
we manage to find out is:

  a) musical tastes differ (I think Thirwell is amazing,
     while I find Mr. Biafra pompous and overrated.  You
     probably feel the opposite.)
  b) people on the net are willing to get sucked into these
     dick size wars.

>This is all beside the point anyway.  You responded to a
>post I made (which was not even directed at you) when you had absolutly NO idea
>what I was talking about.  Your finger was just sitting there on that "f" key,
>and you just couldn't stand it.  Your remark was totally out of the context of
>what I was trying to say.  I don't know what your idea of "musical one-         upsmanship" is, Sho, but since that wasn't the intent of my original post, your
>follow-up was way off base.  May I suggest that you remove the "f" key from thatlittle IBM PC jr. or yours until you get control of your obsessive-compulsive
>streaks to respond to that which you know less than nothing about?  Thanks!

Perhaps you're right.  Perhaps I missed the point of your
article entirely.  Let's take a look at the original.

/****
From: sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: one line bio

milliken@athena.cs.uga.edu (Brewmeister) writes:
>cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
>>cj cannot find a record store that has not sold out
>>of the new Eno single.

>SO?  You think you got problems?  Try and find something by Jello Biafra some-  time.  If you do find Eno, and you're dumb enough to spend money on it, then
>I'll sell you a tape of me traumatizing my girlfriend's cat.  It's better.
>Trust me.

Please don't try to play musical one-upsmanship around
here.  You will lose.  Trust me.

*****/

Let me tell you what *I* think your intentions in posting
this were: 
   1) You thought it was funny.  Maybe it was.
   2) You wanted to brag about your musical tastes.  This is
      what causes musical dick size wars.

Am I off base?

-Sho
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