Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1g.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!ihu1g!fish From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Mangos are in season!! - (nf) Message-ID: <414@ihu1g.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 12:01:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ihu1g.414 Posted: Fri Jun 8 12:01:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jun-84 07:59:23 EDT References: <485@hou2h.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 32 >> Look, a-holes, this newsgroup is for infectious, inflammatory articles, >> not mindless drivel. Anything I see in this newsgroup that is not >> intended to be offensive offends me! > >But.......if this discussion offends you, hasn't it met your >basic criterion, thus deserving to be here (:-)) > > Kevin Hunter > AT&T Consumer Products NO, NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO! LOOK AT THE WORDING, THE WORDING! I SAID "intended to be offensive." NOTE THE KEYWORD, INTENDED, INTENT, INTENTION! THERE IS NO PARADOX! PEOPLE WHO INSIST ON POSTING "HARMLESS" ARTICLES DO IT JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE *BALLS* TO REALLY LET GO AND FLAME, CAUTION TO THE WINDS, DAMN THE COUNTER-FLAMES, FULL SPEED AHEAD. I FIND THIS BEHAVIOR OFFENSIVE PRECISELY BECAUSE THE WIMPS WHO DO IT ARE REALLY AFRAID OF OFFENDING ANYBODY. WELL, LOOK, IT DOESN'T WORK. Now, I subscribe to this newsgroup because I want to see and vent invective. I want to see things that really matter, like horses crapping all over the bike trails, get hauled up in front of an angry electronic mob and barbecued. But what do I get instead? I, who have graciously made an ass of myself time after time in this newsgroup, asking only that others do the same? MANGOES? WOMBATS? YOU BET I'M OFFENDED! -- Bob Fishell ihnp4!ihu1g!fish