From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 04:17:41 MST
Michael writes
> Subject: I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T POST THIS, AND I KNOW IT, BUT I HAVE TO:
> INCIVILITY / FLAME WARNING
>
> This reply is almost certainly a lapse in judgment on my part. All
> ambulatory noncombatants, please relocate behind the yellow-and-black
> concrete revetments.
Well, on the few occasions I've written words like those, "This
reply is almost certainly a lapse in judgment on my part...",
I've instead gone out to the refrigerator for a soda, and then
watched a little TV. But I'm glad you went ahead with your post,
because sometimes emotional overreactions have very occasionally
to be overreacted against!
> > 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.
Yes, it is getting a little witless.
> 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...
>
> This latest passionate post of yours trivializes the matters at hand,
> and suggests to me that you are perhaps feeling rather powerless.
Yes, Michael, I think that you've probably penetrated to the
truth of the matter.
Also, you raised the concept of *civility*. When we've lost that,
we've lost everything here.
Lee
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