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From: jmm@bonnie.UUCP (Joe Mcghee)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts
Subject: Re: other topics
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 15:23:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 15:23:48 1985
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>   Isn't there anyone out there who wants to discuss or report on anything
> else besides the Northern Ireland problem??????      
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>                                       Robert Walsh
> ut-sally \                            University of Southwestern Louisiana
>           !usl!rww
>   akgua /

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

	A while back I published a whole series of articles on Stonehenge,
its astronomical connections and its relationship to Celtic culture. I
received a quite excessive amount of flak from some people on these articles.
Some of these complainers couldn't reason their way out of a wet paper bag,
but they were absolutely sure that what I had written was absolutely wrong.
Someone even complained that these articles were not pertinent to
net.nlang.celts because they had nothing to do with Celtic culture! Someone
else complained that these articles should appear nowhere else but in
net.nlang.celts. And when I wrote some articles about a music festival, there
appeared a couple of really racist comments about that. At a certain point I
decided to change the subject and now some people complain about my current
topic. I guess you just can't please everyone.
	It seems only logical that if there are so many more interesting
topics to write about, some of my critics could get together and write
some POSITIVE articles of their own and bury me with their eloquence
instead of wasting their energy in NEGATIVE articles and the constant search
for my peccadilloes.
	To my critics I say: How about it guys? Can you pour forth your
knowledge and style upon the nets and show us all how it should be done?
How about a good article on Stonehenge or New Grange or a bit of ancient
folklore or poetry? After all I don't remember ever taking an oath to write
ALL the articles for a particular net. Maybe we might find a new theory or two
on some of those unsolved mysteries. Remember, it is better to light a single
candle than to curse the darkness.

			From the Druids School of Star Spotting
			and Boulder Alignment,

			bonnie!jmm
			J. M. McGhee