Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yale!Horne-Scott From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Franchise Opportunity Message-ID: <71117@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 30 Aug 89 18:12:37 GMT References: <434@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <948@utoday.UUCP> <5862@ficc.uu.net> <949@utoday.UUCP> <2006@avsd.UUCP> <5497@inco.UUCP> <2016@avsd.UUCP> <956@utoday.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 61 In-reply-to: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) In article <956@utoday.UUCP>, greenber@utoday (Ross M. Greenberg) writes: > In article <2016@avsd.UUCP> childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes: > >mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes: > > When I review a product and say "What a piece of overpriced crud!", Quite frankly, that's my view of your magazine. (No smiley here, please note.) > Of course, that has nothing to do with my posting a little > (*very* little) joke. That it was a "*very* little" joke is the reason that we flamed you. > >"Besides, not reading the magazine because you don't like a joke from > > one of the writers is a bit extreme, don't you think?" > > > >Whoa. First it's "his magazine", now he's just "one of the writers". > > Hey, I wouldn't mind taking credit for the whole magazine. Shall I take that as an anti-disclaimer: "I *do* speak for my employer"? [still more advertising hype deleted] > > My responsibilities there, as Review Editor, should be obvious. Tell ya > what: if you're pissed off at my posting(s), simply tear the section > I'm responsible for out of the magazine and feed it to your gerbil > or something? I'll call the ASPCA if he does. :-) > >I am valued by my employers for my ability to accept responsibility, not for > >my ability to evade it. I value and respect myself for the same reason. This > >is not a missing sense of humor, it is a refusal to laugh at something that > >is irresponsible behavior posing as humor. If you are too dense to make the > >distinction between the two without aid, this is indeed sad. > > Well, that's very nice indeed. I have to question a person's ability > to even recognize responsibility when they can't recognize a meaningless > little posting. I have to question an editor's competence when he splits infinitives and uses incorrect pronouns. :-) (OK, I'll admit that that was somewhat unfair. Follow-ups to `alt.flame', which I don't read.) You admit that your posting was meaningless. Good. But if it was meaningless, why did you post it? > Brad (if you're reading this), could you please send > my friend here a copy of your book? I'll pay for it. Use a highlighter > on the more subtle jokes, ok? And a crayon on the unfunny ones. :-) --Scott Scott Horne Undergraduate programmer, Yale CS Dept Facility horne@cs.Yale.edu ...!{harvard,cmcl2,decvax}!yale!horne Home: 203 789-0877 SnailMail: Box 7196 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Work: 203 432-1260 Summer residence: 175 Dwight St, New Haven, CT Dare I speak for the amorphous gallimaufry of intellectual thought called Yale?