Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2h.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hou2h!kdh From: kdh@hou2h.UUCP (K.HUNTER) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Re: Mangos are in season!! - (nf) Message-ID: <487@hou2h.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 11:32:19 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2h.487 Posted: Mon Jun 11 11:32:19 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jun-84 00:40:49 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 35 >>> 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. Do you KNOW that that is the case? Perhaps the whole mango discussion was begun in hopes of offending someone like yourself. Perhaps the seemingly wimp-ish contents were part of a master plan to uncover flame-aholics, to offend them, and thus to raise the general level of offensiveness (and thermal energy level) of this group. Now all we need is for one other person to throw out some useless invective, denouncing this discussion and its authors as beneath THEIR notice, and we can all don our asbestos gloves again. Any volunteers? (He says, reaching for the flameproof suit and the fire extinguisher) Kevin Hunter AT&T Consumer Products Caveat Reador: The views expressed in this article are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of any sane individual, group, corporation, or nation. Vive la flame!!!!!!!