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From: tcmaint@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Thomas A. Dowe)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Thomas A Dowe, One Mighty Dumb Honky
Message-ID: <7879@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 09:18:27 GMT
References: <10976@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <7846@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> <1473@mipos3.intel.com>
Reply-To: tomd@pulsar.telcom.tek.com (Thomas A. Dowe)
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In article <1473@mipos3.intel.com> dmccart@cadev4.UUCP (D. J. McCarthy ~) writes:
>In <7846@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> tcmaint@tekigm2 (Thomas A. Dowe) writes:

>>I really delight in the number of people aligned against me.  Know the
>>enemy is, and will always be, the prime objective of any warrior in life.

>1) "Know your enemy" does not mean "make as many enemies as you can".

Nice point, but it, itself, doesn't mean that you shouldn't know all
who will volunteer.  So, your "point" turns out to be a non sequitur.
Try harder.

>2) You are hardly what I would call a warrior.

No one is anyone whom you would call a warrior.  Else, list some.

>3) When it all comes down to it, you really have no idea just how many
>   enemies you have made.  For every person who votes for you for
>   Net.Idiot (and is therefore "the enemy"), there are an undeclared
>   number of people who voted for someone else but still are "the enemy",
>   an undeclared number number of people who didn't feel like voting but
>   are still "the enemy", and a number of people whose votes have bounced
>   but are still "the enemy".  The list of people who vote for you are
>   just the merest tip of the iceberg.  Look at it this way, T@d - has
>   anyone ever posted an article that said "Bravo, T@d, you were really
>   on the mark that time"?  Or sent you mail with words to that effect?
>   Know your friends, T@d; those pitiful few that have sent you mail or
>   posted agreeing with you are the only non-enemies you've got.

DJ, you are a pitiful failure.  I expect that you are smart enough, but
you don't have any edge.  You are so dependent on someone, anyone, saying
that you "scored" on that one that you consider it a flame to accuse
another of its absence.  Trying to project this dependency onto me isn't
very smart, either.  It forces you to reveal your own efforts at misdirect-
ion and lies.  You haven't any idea how much mail I receive.  Even if you
did know, that would in itself reveal the extent of your own compulsion for
me.  So transparent, so...  I expect that is why you posted all those mis-
attributions once a week, or so, you wanted congratulations for making
fun of others.  Typical.

>>From this, all his plans and tactics are formed.  What is even better is
>>when the enemy provides you a list and calling it, "The Net.Idiot Award!"

>	Your plans and tactics seem to be centered around making as many
>people as you can mad at you so that they will get really riled up and vote
>for you.  In that case, you have succeeded - if you can call making yourself
>look like a scuzzy little jerkbag a "success".

My plans involve having as many people see the real curmudgeons and their
slavish chauvinists as possible.  Welcome to the stage.  There is plenty
of room for one more fool.

Tad
wherever