From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 15:59:35 MST
This reply is almost certainly a lapse in judgement on my part. All
ambulatory noncombatants, please relocate behind the yellow-and-black
concrete revetments.
"I try. I really try." --Billy Jack
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:46:40 +0100, hubert mania <humania@t-online.de>
wrote:
> Courtesy of DUMP (Dangerous Undisclosed Militant Pacifists)
## Sarcasm Warning 12345: No courtesy evident. ## Semantic mismatch:
"Undisclosed," huh? Never let quality stand in the way of witless wordplay.
...scrollback...
> This is the first official announcement of the Secretary of PUKE
> (Professional Uplifting Killing Experience)
>
> Bring your personal throw up to the local PC!
>
>> From today on everybody who feels like he has to puke when watching
>> Fuehrer
> George Troubleyou Bush addressing the US army, or US /UK war criminals
> killing Iraqui civilians might bring his warmest throw up to his local PC
> (Puke Container) where the community's collective stomach contents will
> be
> gathered and sent to the White House in Washington, D.C., USA as our live
> stream contribution to this glorious crusade of God's own country.
>
> Humania
It has been evident for some time now that you have very strong feelings,
Mr. Mania. And that's fine; many of us do. Permit me to express some of
mine. If you can be militant for pacifism, I think I can and must militate
for--whatever my view is, if it can be fairly labeled. So here goes. Sorry
for the long letter, I didn't have time to write a short one.
This latest passionate post of yours trivializes the matters at hand, and
suggests to me that you are perhaps feeling rather powerless.
As Samantha and others have noted on this list, it is quite possible that
the world stands on the threshold of WW IV (or III, take your pick), or the
N+1th Crusade, or something just as full of pain and peril, but harder to
label.
Do you really, *really* find puking the most effective response?
<flame=HIGH>
If that's the best you can offer, I'd much prefer that you (personally)
puke all over yourself and then simmer in it as you choke. Which is what
you seem to be doing with this post. Good show! Feels good to puuuuuke,
doesn't it--makes you HOLY, right? Holier than, well, just about anybody
you're sure is a MONSTER, right? Keep it up, and don't mind the airway.
Puking for change is FUN and PRODUCTIVE. Plus, in email, nobody has to
smell it, or administer CPR. YOU BETCHA, you're REALLY going to show
Troubleyou a thing or two.
<flame=OFF>
Maybe you actually have diagnosable mania. I have come close to wondering
about myself once or twice; in those cases I sometimes felt righteous to
the point of (on later reflection) absurdity. It's part of the pattern.
<flame=MEDIUM>
Get a clue. Until you're willing to set yourself on fire on the steps of
the Capitol building, your impotent pointless posturing engenders my pity
and contempt, even while I share some of your fears.
I'll repeat that: ...EVEN WHILE I SHARE SOME OF YOUR FEARS, YOU ENGENDER MY
PITY AND CONTEMPT.
I hate reinstituting killfiles, I really do. But a "SELF-INDULGENT
SANCTIMONIOUS ASSHOLE" email hotkey is substantially less civil, wouldn't
you agree? Yes, announcing a PLONK is always, in large part, a self-
indulgent thing. I wish I could bring myself to just silently killfile you--
but the fact is that my sentiments don't fit into your compartments and I
felt/thought that the list deserved mine at least as much as yours. And
just like puking, plonkng feeeels gooooooood. So I'm not claiming I'm that
much better than you, no siree.
I hope you actually get a grip someday (/again); these are hard times. In
the meantime, accept
My heartiest warm puke-soaked wishes,
MMB
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