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   From: gerry@maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email   
      
   In article   
   <49f18fea-3b35-4417-b548-a87299864cae@k4g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,   
    "porchgreg@aol.com"  wrote:   
      
   > Great disasters do tend to make great folk songs.   
   >   
   > The great troll disaster....   
      
   This parody, attributed to Tom Holt of rec.music.filk,   
   has been circulating for at lerast 10 years now:   
      
   (To the tune of "I Am a Major-General" from Pirates of Penzance)   
      
   I am the very model of a Newsgroup personality.   
   I intersperse obscenity with tedious banality.   
   Addresses I have plenty of, both genuine and ghosted too,   
   On all the countless newsgroups that my drivel is cross-posted to.   
   Your bandwidth I will fritter with my whining and my sniveling,   
   And you're the one who pays the bill, downloading all my driveling.   
   My enemies are numerous, and no-one would be blaming you   
   For cracking my head open after I've been rudely flaming you.   
      
   I hate to lose an argument (by now I should be used to it).   
   I wouldn't know a valid point if I was introduced to it.   
   My learning is extensive but consists of mindless trivia,   
   Designed to fan my ego, which is larger than Bolivia.   
   The comments that I vomit forth, disguised as jest and drollery,   
   Are really just an exercise in unremitting trollery.   
   I say I'm frank and forthright, but that's merely lies and vanity,   
   The gibberings of one who's at the limits of his sanity.   
      
   If only I could get a life, as many people tell me to;   
   If only Mom could find a circus freak-show she could sell me to;   
   If I go off to Zanzibar to paint the local scenery;   
   If I lose all my fingers in a mishap with machinery;   
   If I survive to twenty, which is somewhat problematical;   
   If what I post was more mature, or slightly more grammatical;   
   If I could learn to spell a bit, and maybe even punctuate;   
   Would I still be the loathsome and objectionable punk you hate?   
      
   But while I have this tiresome urge to prance around and show my face,   
   It simply isn't safe for normal people here in cyberspace.   
   To stick me in Old Sparky and turn on the electricity   
   Would be a fitting punishment for my egocentricity.   
   I always have the last word; so, with uttermost finality,   
   That's all from me, the model of a Newsgroup personality.   
      
   --   
   Gerry Myerson (gerry@maths.mq.edi.ai) (i -> u for email)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)