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   Rob Evans to ggam77@net-kooks.org   
   Re: Three Bad Poems [part one]   
   28 Feb 05 18:23:41   
   
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   From: rre@mla001.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message <4m9621lsjgvmileml0s5qdpfq8goegq36l@4ax.com>, ggamble   
    writes   
   >On 28 Feb 2005 00:38:45 -0800, "Will Dockery"    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>Three of the worst poems I've ever read. Entertaining, yes, but fucken   
   >>bad   
   >>stuff:   
   >   
   >   
   >Dockery is secretly hoping that his copyright violation/flame attempt   
   >behavior of posting others' works will cause people to respond in kind   
   >by posting examples of Dockery's *work*.   
   >   
   >If this were to occur, he would declare that he had *won* because it   
   >would inflate his Google hit count.   
   >   
   >Of course, if this were to not occur, you would declare that he had   
   >*won* anyway.   
   >   
   >Dockery has that personality streak that is so common among to the   
   >garden variety usenet troll:  The Robin Hood Syndrome. He sees himself   
   >as the champion of the oppressed, and will do anything (including   
   >making a gigantic fool of himself) to further his agenda of spitting   
   >in the eye of the *establishment* or cabal as he sees it.   
   >   
   >chuckles, rick fry, kenny chaffin, mike stephens, tom bishop, bill   
   >palmer etc, etc, all have (or had) the same motivation.   
   >   
   >They all have low self-esteem and imagine that they can pose as a   
   >powerful, virile personality on usenet in order to compensate for   
   >whatever transgressions some unspecified authority figure has   
   >inflicted upon them in the distant past.   
   >   
   >It's kind of sad, really, but it's somewhat interesting in an abnormal   
   >psych sort of way, ya know?   
   >   
   >Do carry on.   
   >   
   >You win again!   
   >   
   >yay   
   >   
   >heh   
   >   
   Actually, there is an upside of the Great Fake's obsession with Renay.   
   As long as he keeps posting her stuff rather than his own, we get   
   something decent to read and he gets to meet his demanding x-post   
   schedule.  It's a win-win for the Cabal and the Banal.   
      
   Rob   
      
      
   --   
   Rob Evans   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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