Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site lll-crg.ARpA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!booter From: booter@lll-crg.ARpA (Elaine Richards) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: wasting time Message-ID: <954@lll-crg.ARpA> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 22:49:17 EST Article-I.D.: lll-crg.954 Posted: Wed Oct 30 22:49:17 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:18:25 EST References: <917@cvl.UUCP> Reply-To: booter@lll-crg.UUCP (Elaine Richards) Distribution: net Organization: Chocoholics Non-Anonymous Lines: 38 In article <917@cvl.UUCP> rich@cvl.UUCP (Richard Aleksandr) writes: > > Well, I didn't have any illusions that my messages >would change anything anyhow. The nerds, wimps, bored, etc. >will keep posting their heart-wrenching life stories, and >the rest of us will keep chuckling. After all, it is funny >that someone would waste enough time to type a 5 page message >when they could use that time to really TALK to someone! Maybe >even (are you ready for this?) a girl! > Well, maybe they are not interested in girls. I like men. Most men I know like women. > But... enough of this. I tried to inject a little life >into this nerd heaven, but one man can only do so much. It's >been fun. And don't forget to kiss your terminal before you >leave tonight, you savages. > Urp! *Scratch* Grunt! WOW WHATTA HE-MAN! > Bird Dog Go back to net.flame where all little boys belong. You really are trite, yet abrasive. Do you realize that people who could potentially hire you in the future read this net? I cannot believe your shortsightedness! E ***** "There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of being complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt. -Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar " Twain