From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 26/12/2025 3:01 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   > On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:00:03 -0800, john larkin    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:00:06 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 25/12/2025 5:44 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   >>>> Gentlemen,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It's 'that' time of year again and we've had some heated debates on   
   >>>> this group over the last 12 months, both from those who want to   
   >>>> explore different views and those who would rather shut them down at   
   >>>> any price. As a Christian conservative and a libertarian, I fall into   
   >>>> the former category of course, and bear no ill will to anyone here. So   
   >>>> a very happy Christmas to *all* our contributors here, of whatever   
   >>>> religious persuasion they may be, or none at all for that matter! And   
   >>>> have a happy and prosperous New Year.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Your pal,   
   >>>   
   >>> Cursitor Doom may think that he is a Christian conservative and a   
   >>> liberation (which happen to inconsistent ideologies) but the depressing   
   >>> reality is that he is a gullible sucker for the kind of propaganda that   
   >>> autocratic psychopaths (like Trump and Putin) dish out.   
   >>   
   >> Thank you for the lovely Christmas spirit.   
   >   
   > It was Bill and his fellow countryman Phil Alison who are responsible   
   > for me adopting the "Gentlemen" prefix to all my original posts here,   
   > in the hope that they'd both observe the implied wish that trolls were   
   > not welcome to respond.   
      
   As Cursitor Doom is a perfect example of the anonymous troll, and both   
   Phil and I post under our real names, this is deeply ironical.   
      
   > Sadly, it hasn't worked. In any event, I'd   
   > have thought Bill would have his time taken up elsewhere at this   
   > season of the year playing the pantomime villain at some local theatre   
   > in Sydney. A role for which he is, of course, perfectly suited.   
      
   Cursitor Doom's command of the mechanics of casting aren't impressive. I   
   was involved in a variety of theatrical performances when young, but   
   never as a performer - I lack the capacity to deceive the audience,   
   unlike Cursitor Doom, who has it in spades (if not all that convincingly).   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydhney   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)