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From: dmccart@cadape.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy ~)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: the crystal colour thingies
Message-ID: <1488@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 19 Jan 90 03:28:01 GMT
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In <8006@sybase.sybase.com> elton@fnord.sybase.UUCP (Elton Wildermuth) writes:
>In <1474@mipos3.intel.com> dmccart@cadev4.UUCP (D. J. McCarthy ~) writes:
>>In <7959@sybase.sybase.com> [Elton writes]:
>>>In article <5488@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, Marc Cygnus writes:
>>[stuff about fire-type flames in alt.flame]
>>
>>>So, whadda ya think?  Gastroenteritis?  Breakfast at McDonalds?
>>
>>	More like a fish-shooting addict that found alt.flame almost as
>>convenient a barrel as Gene Smith did of the heavy metal group.
>>	Congratulations, Elton, you're the only one he hit.
>
>Damn -- who'da thunk it?  Mr. Context missed a pun.  With both hands, in
>broad daylight.  Tell me, DJ:  can you find your face without a map?

	I got the pun.  Colon.  Dash.  Made you think of some little poo-poo
joke, did it.  Just because I'm past the anal-fixation stage in my
development (unlike you) doesn't mean your painful attempt at a pun went
unrecognized.

	Now I guess I better spell out for you exactly why I said what I
did or else we'll be at this all year.  Cygnus' posting was obviously an
attempt to get a response - any response, not just a flame - and everyone
else that reads alt.flame, even the stupid ones, realized this.  You
obviously did not.  There is an art to *not* posting as well as an art
*to* posting; maybe some day you'll figure it out.  Meanwhile I'll be here
to hold and/or slap your hand again when you need it.

	"Find my face without a map"?  Get real.

>Let's try the [removed for brevity, and so I can pretend this is a flame]
>lines again:

	No need to; I read the original posting and not only understood
*what* he was saying, but *why* he was saying it.  Work on the "why" part
and come back when you understand.

>>DJM		dmccart@cadev4.intel.com
>>I was going to put John Woods' "2x4" comment here but Clay beat me to it.
>
>Duh.  Here's your honorary Jeff Vogel Memorial "Free Ticket to a Dick-Size
>Flame" award.  Don't spend it all in one place.


	What?

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D. J. McCarthy                         5             4
dmccart@cadev4.intel.com	Just a 4 person in a 4 world.