Re: PING: Pastorio

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob (this one) said:

Lass Chance said:

I got an email, today form someone I care about....

Quoted message said:

So what? Im not looking to destroy the safety of this group, the
purpose of this group.... and I dont think you are, either.

Quoted message said:

But, the group is (ostensibly, at least) FOR "support".

Im hoping you wont dissapoint me...and for some reason, dont think you
will.
I think this group is important to you, too.

....More important that a pissing contest that will never be won or
lost.

I could be worng.

...but, I dont think so.

Agreed?

Not a chance. And lose that silly old "I got this email" business. The
purely simple fact is that a killfile solves both your and her desperate
problem with me. I'm here because I want to be. I post things about
food, culinary principles and other stuff as I see fit. Just like
everybody. You're asking me to ignore the sort of "negative,
argumentative, humorless" stuff you've posted. I don't think so.

Your snotty posts are what prompted me to come after you. No hero with a
white hat, just don't like that smug surety and the nasty fairy tales
you feel perfectly safe in promoting. You really ought to read my posts
besides the ones for you. I posted this a few days ago:

-------------------------
It's hard to remember, but very little you see here is actually a person
speaking. Most people assume "identities" that they wouldn't dream of
asserting anywhere else. So they let their normal restraints slip and
post the most amazing things. (I stopped posting under my whole name
because I began to get so much spam. But since I sign my posts with my
first and last names and there's exactly one person on earth with my
full name... see how it is?)

Anyway, it's the newest great anarchy; the biggest free-for-all in
history. If it ever makes you want to cry or if you want to throw
something at your monitor, it's time to walk outside and watch a
hummingbird. Or a nasturtium. Or listen to the tinkling laughter of a
child being a child. Watch clouds shift and move and imagine where
they're going next and who can see them.

It's not world peace or freedom from hunger. It's not justice or
forgiveness of sin. It's just a funny game of shuffleboard where the
players sometimes try to figuratively hit each other with the sticks.
The big difference is that there are no prizes and no one wins. And no
lasting injuries except perhaps to the already crippled.
--------------------------

This is how I live online.

So, I'm Bob Pastorio. Who are you?

Pastorio

<lol> Well put Bob. :-)

I, too, used to take Usenet WAY too seriously!
So much so that I'd obsess about my answers to some posts all day long.

I don't do that anymore...

I realize it's an anarchy so learnt to use it mostly for entertainment
now, even tho' I will admit to learning a lot here.

Like learning about Black Soy Beans!!!!!!! ;-d

You are oft' one of the more useful posters so when you get beastly with
me, I try to throw it back at you with a sense of humor!

Works for me.... and works with Sheldon too!

I really do like Lass', she has a sharp wit and is picking up the low
carb lifestyle with a gusto. She's also a lot of fun off the group by
private e-mail.

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

You are oft' one of the more useful posters so when you get beastly with
me, I try to throw it back at you with a sense of humor!

We haven't really gotten into it heavy - you and I - and I don't foresee
that we would. You're rational, generous of spirit, funny and positive.

Quoted message said:

I really do like Lass', she has a sharp wit and is picking up the low
carb lifestyle with a gusto. She's also a lot of fun off the group by
private e-mail.

Be good to see that facet here instead of what we get...

Pastorio

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob (this one) said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

You are oft' one of the more useful posters so when you get beastly with
me, I try to throw it back at you with a sense of humor!

We haven't really gotten into it heavy - you and I - and I don't foresee
that we would. You're rational, generous of spirit, funny and positive.

We did when I first joined RFC... ;-)
It was under a different identity.

And I deserved what I got!
Unfortunately, my intro. to usenet was MFW so I went into RFC with an
attitude. I've learnt better now.

Thanks for the compliment!

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I really do like Lass', she has a sharp wit and is picking up the low
carb lifestyle with a gusto. She's also a lot of fun off the group by
private e-mail.

I'm glad that you see that! I pray that she learns to appreciate your
generous and loving side.......

Quoted message said:

Be good to see that facet here instead of what we get...

<lol>

Quoted message said:

Pastorio

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:

<snip>

Quoted message said:

I, too, used to take Usenet WAY too seriously!

<snip>

I think you and Bob still do. Not that you should feel bad about
that. But I liked his post anyways.

Well, that's unfortunate, Bob. You had a chance to be a bigger person
than you're evidentially capable of being.

I dont think this is true: "It's hard to remember, but very little you
see here is actually a person speaking. Most people assume "identities"
that they wouldn't dream of asserting anywhere else....."

I think most people present themselves on-line pretty much the way they
are. JC is clearly one exception and I expect you are another. I think
what you mean to imply is that you're not as big as [censored] in person as
you are on-line.

...Which is probably not true, either, but at least serves to help
convince yourself you're some kind of "great guy" in RL and not REALLY
the on-line [censored] at all. I can see why that would be important.

No matter.....Ive been dissapointed by a person's "true colors" before.

LassChance

Start LC~5-16-05
202-188-165

Did you ever consider just letting it go all by yourself?

--
Cheri

Lass Chance wrote in message
<[email hidden]>...
Well, that's unfortunate, Bob. You had a chance to be a bigger person
than you're evidentially capable of being.

Lass Chance said:

Well, that's unfortunate, Bob. You had a chance to be a bigger person
than you're evidentially capable of being.

You can't just stop it, can you?

"evidentially" you're simply unable to live with any situation that
isn't exactly as you want it to be. It must -MUST - conform to your
desires or you will grind out these repetitive, wearisome, gormless
insults and punish the evildoers. As if...

Quoted message said:

I dont think this is true: "It's hard to remember, but very little you
see here is actually a person speaking. Most people assume "identities"
that they wouldn't dream of asserting anywhere else....."

I told you my name, what's yours? Oh, Lass Chance isn't an "identity." I
see...

And I don't really care if you believe it or not. You've shown a goodly
number of your beliefs and I feel pity when I see you pile more
jaundiced foolishness atop yesterday's and the day before's.

Quoted message said:

I think most people present themselves on-line pretty much the way they
are.

So you're a belligerent, uninformed blowhard in real life, too? You
vomit your homophobic comments in public? You offer psychological
assessments about people's character and their likely history standing
in front of strangers who can grab you by the throat when you say the
sorts of things you offer here?

See, I don't believe that. It's why you post under a fake identity. So
you're not being held to any accountability. You can say anything and
get away with it because you post standing behind a mask. An identity. A
nice, safe anonymous identity. You're very brave when no one can see
you. There are some bad names for people like that.

Quoted message said:

JC is clearly one exception and I expect you are another. I think
what you mean to imply is that you're not as big as [censored] in person as
you are on-line.

No, I said what I meant. But I note that you seem to have enormous
difficulty with reading simple sentences and straightforward assertions.
Actually, I didn't write it to you at first because I was pretty sure
you wouldn't get it. As you've just demonstrated.

By the way, that's not just my opinion based on something over a decade
of online experience, it's also what the sociological community is
saying about the interactions they see. Usenet has created an entirely
new cultural phenomenon of anonymous interactions. People can assume
whatever synthetic persona they wish to, as you do, or they can hang it
out with a real name and take whatever lumps they earn, as I do.

Quoted message said:

...Which is probably not true, either, but at least serves to help
convince yourself you're some kind of "great guy" in RL and not REALLY
the on-line [censored] at all. I can see why that would be important.

You see nothing. And you prove it anew with each post. You're a sad
little gamer with no real substance to offer, complaining and whining
and lashing out when things don't go your way. You spew these gratuitous
denigrations as though they had any currency or truth to them. I'm truly
hard-pressed to accept that you actually believe what you post. Sad, sad
picture if you do. And maybe sadder still if you don't.

Quoted message said:

No matter.....Ive been dissapointed by a person's "true colors" before.

<sigh> Life is *so* difficult when having to deal with lesser mortals,
wouldn't you say...?

Life's a [censored] and so are you. And I mean that in the nicest possible
way. You're unfortunately glib with only two modes of normal operation
here: unctuously phony with an implied intimacy for those who buy your
oily, back-slapping, chummy fakery, or, belligerent smugness offered
with malice and specific falsehood. How wonderful. Your whole family
must be so proud of your blatant, passive-aggressive K-Y Jelly slipperiness.

Pastorio

Well, Bob, I used to use my real name in Usenet, being a trusting sort
and generally expecting the best of people. The result was having my
home address posted, along with my phone number, creating a security
risk that was unnecessary and easily preventable, in hindsight.

That was then and this is now...but I dont need to learn the same lesson
twice. Im quick, that way.

The more folks like you I meet in these hallowed Usenet halls, the more
sure I am
that personal anonymity is important.
The mere fact that you'd LIKE to know my name is reason enough to not
use it. After all, a pain-in-the-ass jerk-off on line is as threatening
as, say, a beer fart, unpleasant, but insignificant. In RL, they have
to be shot.

Who needs the tsuris?

LassChance

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202-188-165

Lass Chance wrote:

Here we go. More whiny excuses, more gratuitous insults, more pointless
blather...

Wait a second. Why is she standing in that spotlight on that huge stage?
Why... why... it's a performance art piece. Oh, look at the poster
advertising the event... it's called "*It's ALL about ME*"

Oh, look, there's a stage manager SHOUTING into his mic to the backstage
crew... What's he saying...?

HEY SPIKE, PUT A LITTLE MORE PINK IN THE LIGHTS TO MAKE HER SEEM SOFTER
AND MORE LOVABLE. MARTY, MUSIC WITH A SAD, MINOR KEY MELODY - VERY
QUIET. VICTIM MUSIC...

Quoted message said:

Well, Bob, I used to use my real name in Usenet, being a trusting sort
and generally expecting the best of people.

MARTY. BRING UP THE VIOLINS. I THINK THIS IS THE TEARJERKER "REASONABLE
EXPLANATION" PART THAT LETS HER BRAG SOME MORE. MAKE IT A LITTLE WHITER
LIGHT FOR EMPHASIS AND TO IMPLY SINCERITY.

Quoted message said:

The result was having my
home address posted, along with my phone number, creating a security
risk that was unnecessary and easily preventable, in hindsight.

That was then and this is now...but I dont need to learn the same lesson
twice. Im quick, that way.

OK, MARTY. THAT PART SEEMS TO BE OVER. NOW IS WHEN WE SEGUE INTO THE
INSULTS. BRING UP BLUE AND RED TO SHOW ANGER AT THE INJUSTICE AND MALICE
BETWEEN MAN AND MAN. AND VICE VERSA. SANDRA, START THE FOG MACHINE WHEN
SHE HITS "HALLOWED USENET HALLS" BUT KEEP IT LOW-KEY. GUINEVERE, ON THAT
CONCLUDING NOTE OF RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION, DO A LIGHTENING BOLT AT THE
WORD "SHOT" AND, MARTY, LET SOME SERIOUS THUNDER ROLL FOR 5 SECONDS...

Quoted message said:

The more folks like you I meet in these hallowed Usenet halls, the more
sure I am
that personal anonymity is important.
The mere fact that you'd LIKE to know my name is reason enough to not
use it. After all, a pain-in-the-ass jerk-off on line is as threatening
as, say, a beer fart, unpleasant, but insignificant. In RL, they have
to be shot.

GREAT JOB GUYS. HERE COMES THE ETHNIC COMMENT. HAVE HAVA NAGILAH PLAYING
SOFTLY IN THE BACKGROUND...

Quoted message said:

Who needs the tsuris?

KEEP THE KEY LIGHT ON HER... DIM SLOWLY TO FULL BLACK WHILE SHE STANDS
THERE WITH HER HEAD BOWED AND BOTH HANDS CLUTCHED, WHITE-KNUCKLED, TO
HER BREAST IN REASONABLE FRUSTRATION...

HOLD IT... LET IT FINISH...

AND... LIGHTS DOWN, NOISES OFF...

EVERYBODY... FANTASTIC JOB. HER UTTER PREDICTABILITY MAKE THIS ONE EASY
GIG. SEE YOU ALL FOR HER NEXT POST... MAYBE WE'LL GET SOME ANIMALS,
LITTLE KIDS AND STUFFED BUNNIES AND BEARS TO MAKE IT EVEN MORE HOKEY.
MARJORIE, COULD WE DO SOMETHING WITH THE HAIR? MAYBE PIGTAILS TO MAKE
HER LOOK MORE INNOCENT? THINK ABOUT IT.

THAT'S IT PEOPLE. SOLID JOB...

UNTIL HER NEXT POST, TAKE A BREAK. DIET COKE'S ON ME...

In article <[email hidden]>,
"Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]> wrote:

<snipped silliness>

Quoted message said:

THAT'S IT PEOPLE. SOLID JOB...

UNTIL HER NEXT POST, TAKE A BREAK. DIET COKE'S ON ME...

Was it really necessary to "SHOUT" the whole thing dear?
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

What was that about 'gratuitous insults", again?

LassChance

Re: PING: Pastorio

Group: alt.support.diet.low-carb Date: Tue, Jun 28, 2005, 12:27pm From:
[email hidden] (Bob (this one))
Lass Chance wrote:
Here we go. More whiny excuses, more gratuitous insults, more pointless
blather...
Wait a second. Why is she standing in that spotlight on that huge stage?
Why... why... it's a performance art piece. Oh, look at the poster
advertising the event... it's called "*It's ALL about ME*"
Oh, look, there's a stage manager SHOUTING into his mic to the backstage
crew... What's he saying...?
HEY SPIKE, PUT A LITTLE MORE PINK IN THE LIGHTS TO MAKE HER SEEM SOFTER
AND MORE LOVABLE. MARTY, MUSIC WITH A SAD, MINOR KEY MELODY - VERY
QUIET. VICTIM MUSIC...
Well, Bob, I used to use my real name in Usenet, being a trusting sort
and generally expecting the best of people.
MARTY. BRING UP THE VIOLINS. I THINK THIS IS THE TEARJERKER "REASONABLE
EXPLANATION" PART THAT LETS HER BRAG SOME MORE. MAKE IT A LITTLE WHITER
LIGHT FOR EMPHASIS AND TO IMPLY SINCERITY.
The result was having my
home address posted, along with my phone number, creating a security
risk that was unnecessary and easily preventable, in hindsight.
That was then and this is now...but I dont need to learn the same lesson
twice. Im quick, that way.
OK, MARTY. THAT PART SEEMS TO BE OVER. NOW IS WHEN WE SEGUE INTO THE
INSULTS. BRING UP BLUE AND RED TO SHOW ANGER AT THE INJUSTICE AND MALICE
BETWEEN MAN AND MAN. AND VICE VERSA. SANDRA, START THE FOG MACHINE WHEN
SHE HITS "HALLOWED USENET HALLS" BUT KEEP IT LOW-KEY. GUINEVERE, ON THAT
CONCLUDING NOTE OF RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION, DO A LIGHTENING BOLT AT THE
WORD "SHOT" AND, MARTY, LET SOME SERIOUS THUNDER ROLL FOR 5 SECONDS...
The more folks like you I meet in these hallowed Usenet halls, the more
sure I am
that personal anonymity is important.
The mere fact that you'd LIKE to know my name is reason enough to not
use it. After all, a pain-in-the-ass jerk-off on line is as threatening
as, say, a beer fart, unpleasant, but insignificant. In RL, they have to
be shot.
GREAT JOB GUYS. HERE COMES THE ETHNIC COMMENT. HAVE HAVA NAGILAH PLAYING
SOFTLY IN THE BACKGROUND...
Who needs the tsuris?
KEEP THE KEY LIGHT ON HER... DIM SLOWLY TO FULL BLACK WHILE SHE STANDS
THERE WITH HER HEAD BOWED AND BOTH HANDS CLUTCHED, WHITE-KNUCKLED, TO
HER BREAST IN REASONABLE FRUSTRATION...
HOLD IT... LET IT FINISH...
AND... LIGHTS DOWN, NOISES OFF...
EVERYBODY... FANTASTIC JOB. HER UTTER PREDICTABILITY MAKE THIS ONE EASY
GIG. SEE YOU ALL FOR HER NEXT POST... MAYBE WE'LL GET SOME ANIMALS,
LITTLE KIDS AND STUFFED BUNNIES AND BEARS TO MAKE IT EVEN MORE HOKEY.
MARJORIE, COULD WE DO SOMETHING WITH THE HAIR? MAYBE PIGTAILS TO MAKE
HER LOOK MORE INNOCENT? THINK ABOUT IT.
THAT'S IT PEOPLE. SOLID JOB...
UNTIL HER NEXT POST, TAKE A BREAK. DIET COKE'S ON ME...

Start LC~5-16-05
202-188-165

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

"Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]> wrote:

<snipped silliness>

And that's exactly what it was. Quite by design.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

THAT'S IT PEOPLE. SOLID JOB...

UNTIL HER NEXT POST, TAKE A BREAK. DIET COKE'S ON ME...

Was it really necessary to "SHOUT" the whole thing dear?

All caught up in the form to the sacrifice of content, are we?

Missed this part up at the top?

"Wait a second. Why is she standing in that spotlight on that huge
stage? Why... why... it's a performance art piece. Oh, look at the
poster advertising the event... it's called "*It's ALL about ME*"

"Oh, look, there's a stage manager SHOUTING into his mic to the
backstage crew... What's he saying...?"

See, it was a little fiction. A vignette. A bagatelle that required the
same sort of suspension of disbelief as the comic strips in today's
newspapers. It was a response to a fatuous, self-congratulatory post
that had as its goal to restate her cliched pure, white-cloaked
virginity and total innocence of anything negative.

No, seriously...

Pastorio

Lass Chance said:

What was that about 'gratuitous insults", again?

Dear Fatuous Fathead:
Funny how indignant you act - and it has to be an act - when treated as
you treat others. There's a biblical passage that applies to your behavior:

Resonations, 11:12-15
If thou can'st not bear the return-ed heat of the cooking hearth, get
thee out hence out of the scullery. For thou shalt surely only become
scorch-ed and thine jawbone of an ass fried. Strongly as thou deservest
for thine manure of the bull.

Buy a dictionary, a thesaurus, an interpreter and a ghost writer so you
at least have a remote chance of keeping up.

Pastorio

Quoted message said:

Re: PING: Pastorio

Group: alt.support.diet.low-carb Date: Tue, Jun 28, 2005, 12:27pm From:
[email hidden] (Bob (this one))
Lass Chance wrote:
Here we go. More whiny excuses, more gratuitous insults, more pointless
blather...
Wait a second. Why is she standing in that spotlight on that huge stage?
Why... why... it's a performance art piece. Oh, look at the poster
advertising the event... it's called "*It's ALL about ME*"
Oh, look, there's a stage manager SHOUTING into his mic to the backstage
crew... What's he saying...?
HEY SPIKE, PUT A LITTLE MORE PINK IN THE LIGHTS TO MAKE HER SEEM SOFTER
AND MORE LOVABLE. MARTY, MUSIC WITH A SAD, MINOR KEY MELODY - VERY
QUIET. VICTIM MUSIC...
Well, Bob, I used to use my real name in Usenet, being a trusting sort
and generally expecting the best of people.
MARTY. BRING UP THE VIOLINS. I THINK THIS IS THE TEARJERKER "REASONABLE
EXPLANATION" PART THAT LETS HER BRAG SOME MORE. MAKE IT A LITTLE WHITER
LIGHT FOR EMPHASIS AND TO IMPLY SINCERITY.
The result was having my
home address posted, along with my phone number, creating a security
risk that was unnecessary and easily preventable, in hindsight.
That was then and this is now...but I dont need to learn the same lesson
twice. Im quick, that way.
OK, MARTY. THAT PART SEEMS TO BE OVER. NOW IS WHEN WE SEGUE INTO THE
INSULTS. BRING UP BLUE AND RED TO SHOW ANGER AT THE INJUSTICE AND MALICE
BETWEEN MAN AND MAN. AND VICE VERSA. SANDRA, START THE FOG MACHINE WHEN
SHE HITS "HALLOWED USENET HALLS" BUT KEEP IT LOW-KEY. GUINEVERE, ON THAT
CONCLUDING NOTE OF RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION, DO A LIGHTENING BOLT AT THE
WORD "SHOT" AND, MARTY, LET SOME SERIOUS THUNDER ROLL FOR 5 SECONDS...
The more folks like you I meet in these hallowed Usenet halls, the more
sure I am
that personal anonymity is important.
The mere fact that you'd LIKE to know my name is reason enough to not
use it. After all, a pain-in-the-ass jerk-off on line is as threatening
as, say, a beer fart, unpleasant, but insignificant. In RL, they have to
be shot.
GREAT JOB GUYS. HERE COMES THE ETHNIC COMMENT. HAVE HAVA NAGILAH PLAYING
SOFTLY IN THE BACKGROUND...
Who needs the tsuris?
KEEP THE KEY LIGHT ON HER... DIM SLOWLY TO FULL BLACK WHILE SHE STANDS
THERE WITH HER HEAD BOWED AND BOTH HANDS CLUTCHED, WHITE-KNUCKLED, TO
HER BREAST IN REASONABLE FRUSTRATION...
HOLD IT... LET IT FINISH...
AND... LIGHTS DOWN, NOISES OFF...
EVERYBODY... FANTASTIC JOB. HER UTTER PREDICTABILITY MAKE THIS ONE EASY
GIG. SEE YOU ALL FOR HER NEXT POST... MAYBE WE'LL GET SOME ANIMALS,
LITTLE KIDS AND STUFFED BUNNIES AND BEARS TO MAKE IT EVEN MORE HOKEY.
MARJORIE, COULD WE DO SOMETHING WITH THE HAIR? MAYBE PIGTAILS TO MAKE
HER LOOK MORE INNOCENT? THINK ABOUT IT.
THAT'S IT PEOPLE. SOLID JOB...
UNTIL HER NEXT POST, TAKE A BREAK. DIET COKE'S ON ME...

Bob (this one) wrote:
:: Lass Chance wrote:
::
:: Here we go. More whiny excuses, more gratuitous insults, more
:: pointless blather...
::
:: Wait a second. Why is she standing in that spotlight on that huge
:: stage? Why... why... it's a performance art piece. Oh, look at the
:: poster advertising the event... it's called "*It's ALL about ME*"
::
:: Oh, look, there's a stage manager SHOUTING into his mic to the
:: backstage crew... What's he saying...?
::
:: HEY SPIKE, PUT A LITTLE MORE PINK IN THE LIGHTS TO MAKE HER SEEM
:: SOFTER AND MORE LOVABLE. MARTY, MUSIC WITH A SAD, MINOR KEY MELODY -
:: VERY QUIET. VICTIM MUSIC...
::
::: Well, Bob, I used to use my real name in Usenet, being a trusting
::: sort and generally expecting the best of people.
::
:: MARTY. BRING UP THE VIOLINS. I THINK THIS IS THE TEARJERKER
:: "REASONABLE EXPLANATION" PART THAT LETS HER BRAG SOME MORE. MAKE IT
:: A LITTLE WHITER LIGHT FOR EMPHASIS AND TO IMPLY SINCERITY.
::
::: The result was having my
::: home address posted, along with my phone number, creating a security
::: risk that was unnecessary and easily preventable, in hindsight.
:::
::: That was then and this is now...but I dont need to learn the same
::: lesson twice. Im quick, that way.
::
:: OK, MARTY. THAT PART SEEMS TO BE OVER. NOW IS WHEN WE SEGUE INTO THE
:: INSULTS. BRING UP BLUE AND RED TO SHOW ANGER AT THE INJUSTICE AND
:: MALICE BETWEEN MAN AND MAN. AND VICE VERSA. SANDRA, START THE FOG
:: MACHINE WHEN SHE HITS "HALLOWED USENET HALLS" BUT KEEP IT LOW-KEY.
:: GUINEVERE, ON THAT CONCLUDING NOTE OF RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION, DO A
:: LIGHTENING BOLT AT THE WORD "SHOT" AND, MARTY, LET SOME SERIOUS
:: THUNDER ROLL FOR 5 SECONDS...
::
::: The more folks like you I meet in these hallowed Usenet halls, the
::: more sure I am
::: that personal anonymity is important.
::: The mere fact that you'd LIKE to know my name is reason enough to
::: not use it. After all, a pain-in-the-ass jerk-off on line is as
::: threatening as, say, a beer fart, unpleasant, but insignificant.
::: In RL, they have to be shot.
::
:: GREAT JOB GUYS. HERE COMES THE ETHNIC COMMENT. HAVE HAVA NAGILAH
:: PLAYING SOFTLY IN THE BACKGROUND...
::
::: Who needs the tsuris?
::
:: KEEP THE KEY LIGHT ON HER... DIM SLOWLY TO FULL BLACK WHILE SHE
:: STANDS THERE WITH HER HEAD BOWED AND BOTH HANDS CLUTCHED,
:: WHITE-KNUCKLED, TO HER BREAST IN REASONABLE FRUSTRATION...
::
:: HOLD IT... LET IT FINISH...
::
:: AND... LIGHTS DOWN, NOISES OFF...
::
:: EVERYBODY... FANTASTIC JOB. HER UTTER PREDICTABILITY MAKE THIS ONE
:: EASY GIG. SEE YOU ALL FOR HER NEXT POST... MAYBE WE'LL GET SOME
:: ANIMALS, LITTLE KIDS AND STUFFED BUNNIES AND BEARS TO MAKE IT EVEN
:: MORE HOKEY. MARJORIE, COULD WE DO SOMETHING WITH THE HAIR? MAYBE
:: PIGTAILS TO MAKE HER LOOK MORE INNOCENT? THINK ABOUT IT.
::
:: THAT'S IT PEOPLE. SOLID JOB...
::
:: UNTIL HER NEXT POST, TAKE A BREAK. DIET COKE'S ON ME...

🙂

Lass Chance said:

What was that about 'gratuitous insults", again?

The more folks like you I meet in these hallowed Usenet halls, the
more sure I am that personal anonymity is important. The mere fact
that you'd LIKE to know my name is reason enough to not use it. After
all, a pain-in-the-ass jerk-off on line is as threatening as, say, a
beer fart, unpleasant, but insignificant. In RL, they have to be
shot.

Stuff like this is "gratuitous insult." You know perfectly well why I
raised the issue of identity. It had nothing to do with who your are in
the real world. It had everything to do with the fact that you hide
behind a fake name to post the stuff you do with no accountability.

And yet you put this phony-baloney spin on it so you can once again
offer snide innuendo instead of substance. Nasty accusation instead of
explanation about yourself. Evasion instead. Diversion instead.

Nothing "gratuitous" in that. It's all observations about what you've
actually posted. No inventions. No "creativity" in fictional scenarios.
Just you and what you do. And don't do.

See the difference?

Pastorio

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob (this one) said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

"Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]> wrote:

<snipped silliness>

And that's exactly what it was. Quite by design.

I knew that. ;-)
'twas not a criticism, merely an observation!

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

THAT'S IT PEOPLE. SOLID JOB...

UNTIL HER NEXT POST, TAKE A BREAK. DIET COKE'S ON ME...

Was it really necessary to "SHOUT" the whole thing dear?

All caught up in the form to the sacrifice of content, are we?

Missed this part up at the top?

"Wait a second. Why is she standing in that spotlight on that huge
stage? Why... why... it's a performance art piece. Oh, look at the
poster advertising the event... it's called "*It's ALL about ME*"

"Oh, look, there's a stage manager SHOUTING into his mic to the
backstage crew... What's he saying...?"

See, it was a little fiction. A vignette. A bagatelle that required the
same sort of suspension of disbelief as the comic strips in today's
newspapers. It was a response to a fatuous, self-congratulatory post
that had as its goal to restate her cliched pure, white-cloaked
virginity and total innocence of anything negative.

No, seriously...

Pastorio

I'm wondering if she is going to get creative in return..... ;-)

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

I'm wondering if she is going to get creative in return..... ;-)

Miracles happen.

Pastorio

Quoting Bob (this one):

Quoted message said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

I'm wondering if she is going to get creative in return..... ;-)

Miracles happen.

Barnacles happen.

Suze said:

Quoting Bob (this one):

Quoted message said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

I'm wondering if she is going to get creative in return..... ;-)

Miracles happen.

Barnacles happen.

Clavicles happen. (I know mine did)

Pastorio