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   From: gadfly@NOSPAMmeow.org   
      
   On Wednesday 02 March, Henrietta K Thomas wrote in rec.arts.poems:   
      
   > On 28 Feb 2005 18:47:37 -0800, in us.arts.poetry, j r sherman   
   >  wrote:   
      
   >>In article <38g7215qo9n3sj98l3o3dgfk528so22no4@4ax.com>, Henrietta K   
   >>Thomas says...   
   >>>   
   >>>[newsgroups trimmed]   
   >>>   
   >>>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:24:02 -0500, Barbara's Cat    
   >>>wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>...the 18th article in a series of articles attempting to belittle   
   >>>Will Dockery....   
   >>   
   >>hen, he invites abuse. it would be impolite not to accept the   
   >>invitation.   
      
   > Have you never learned to resist temptation?   
      
   You are evidently unaware of Jim's Holy Blood Oath before God (alias   
   Michael Cook) and me. God (alias Michael Cook) is a gentle, tolerant   
   and forgiving (as divine beings all too rarely are), and may one day   
   release Jim from his oath, but I'm not, and I won't. Never. Not even   
   if the Stupid People[tm] make a better film version of The Lord of the   
   Rings than the NeeZees did.   
      
   But in case you're still in doubt, let me remind you of the Sacred   
   Text in which the Value-Added Savior announces our mission to the   
   heathen:   
      
   "see, the mean people know who they are. the problem is the stupid   
   people don't know who they are, so it's the job of the mean people   
   (who know who they are) to make sure the stupid people are aware that   
   they're stupid. see?" - j r sherman   
      
   You may now thank me for causing you to be a little less ignorant than   
   you were five minutes ago.   
      
   >>our politeness is our downfall.   
      
   > Impoliteness is much worse.  It spreads negative vibes all over the   
   > place.   
      
   And how is this worse than our downfall? I'd choose negative vibes   
   over the bottomless pit any day. God (alias Michael Cook) has never   
   threatened unrepentant sinners with *negative vibes* in any of the   
   Usenet posts of his that *I've* read.   
      
   >>i ask you: have you actually ever read any of his writing?   
      
   > Yes.  I read some of his poems in us.arts.poetry.   
      
   And you didn't go blind? A miracle!   
      
   > Not world class, but not bad, either.   
      
   What isn't bad about them?   
      
   I grant you that more than half the words are usually spelled   
   correctly and that some of the punctuation marks are usually in the   
   right places, but otherwise...?   
      
   > He's no worse than anyone else in these newsgroups.   
      
   If by "these newsgroups" you meant us.arts.poetry, us.arts.poetry and   
   us.arts.poetry, you *might* have a point, but the newsgroups line   
   would have to consist of alt.drivel, alt.illiterate.dreck and   
   alt.shouting.drunkenly.on.stage.while.trying.to.work.out.which.pocket.   
   one's.cigarettes.are.in[1] before I'd be tempted to agree with you.   
      
   PJR :-)   
   [1]Yes, I saw thirty seconds of the Dockery video on Veronica's   
   Windoze box. Unforfuckinggettable.   
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