From estephen@emf.emf.net Sat Aug 26 16:50:19 PDT 1995 Article: 13626 of alt.usenet.kooks Path: news.emf.net!emf.emf.net!estephen From: estephen@emf.emf.net (E. Stephen Mack) Newsgroups: alt.usenet.kooks,alt.religion.kibology,alt.fan.wednesday Subject: Re: Uh ... Date: 26 Aug 1995 23:49:34 GMT Organization: Winter Weather, Berkeley, CA Lines: 43 Message-ID: <41obue$j98@emf.emf.net> References: <41e9ij$99h@news.it.gvsu.edu> <41ja39$6s0@emf.emf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.149.0.20 Xref: news.emf.net alt.usenet.kooks:13626 alt.religion.kibology:47340 alt.fan.wednesday:2360 I wrote: >> This is like that scene in Anna Karenina. Funny usenet jokes >> are all funny in the same way; but an unfunny joke is unfunny >> for unique reasons all of its own. grady@netcom.com (Grady Ward) wrote: > DeMaupassant Why Grady you ignorant excuse for a cattle prod. DeMaupassant (related to En Passant in chess), never wrote anything of the kind. If you had any education at all, you would have known this before leaping into the fray with half-jacked one-word comebacks that are VICIOUS UNTRUTHS. I've seen smarter things than you scrawled on the bathroom walls in elementary schools. It seems that before I launch into the rest of this paragraph, I should tell everyone that Grady flaunts his personal practices and attitudes on everyone else. It is worth noting at the outset that it's tasteless knee-biters like Grady that spawn delusions of cannibalism's resplendence. It has been proven time and time again that his grumpy fantasy fits neatly into his selfish pigheaded model of society. I mean, he gives new meaning to the word "chauvinistic." The bulk of nerdy judgemental snobs are at least marginally tolerable, but not him. Grady treats pathetic clergymen as objects. And that, in my view, is our real problem. And if he hadn't REQUESTED me in EMAIL to FLAME HIM PUBLICLY, I would never have written this. I quote from Book One, Part One, Chapter One, Page 1, Paragraph One of _Anna Karenina_ by Count Leo Tolstoy (1877): "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The acronym scene to which I referred in my post can be found in Chapter XII of Part Four (p. 424 of my edition) and it is really the kookiest thing ever written in a Russian novel. I strongly urge you to drop what you're doing and read it RIGHT NOW. __________________________________________________________________________ -- Zeigen (E. Stephen Mack) estephen@emf.net Zeigen's Dilemma Home Page: http://www.emf.net/~estephen/ Thanks to Scott Pakin for the complaint generator. http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/individual/pakin/complaint