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 ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!hplabs!ucbvax!brahms!weemba From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) Newsgroups: net.ai,net.cog-eng,net.philosophy Subject: Re: Computer Dialogue #1 Message-ID: <12496@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 04:35:52 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.12496 Posted: Thu Mar 20 04:35:52 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 07:20:05 EST References: <676@hounx.UUCP> <386@unirot.UUCP> <90@gilbbs.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 34 Xref: watmath net.ai:3333 net.cog-eng:626 net.philosophy:4547 In article <90@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller) writes: > Oh dear. I see that a terrible virus which has been infecting the net >on other newsgroups has spread here. This is a pity. > > Mr. Charles Riordan (unirot!cjr) is a cynical, humourless individual >who seemingly takes a perverse pleasure in ruining otherwise pleasant >discussions and insulting calm, rational persons. > > For the sake of sanity on your newsgroup, ignore him...maybe he'll get >tired and go away. Good luck. CJ and his friend Pete are both incredibly funny. I hope they stay around. For your information, Mr. Keller, just because a posting does not have any of those goddam smiley faces plastered over it, does not mean the posting is on the up and up. I suppose you consider Jonathan Swift and Samuel Beckett cynical humourless individuals who took perverse pleasures in ruining otherwise pleasant discussions and insulting calm rational persons. After all, there are no smiley faces in either of their works. The only perverse pleasure is watching all the humorless individuals who swallow an obvious satire hook line and sinker. As a matter of personal observation, I have never met a cynic who was NOT humorous. It is usually calm rationalists who have no sense of humor. Like yourself, apparently. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aside to CJ and Pete: i kno this dude is a bummer, but no need to hassel this dry passel. cool with you? let im snort dogmatic western brownies til he gags. then hell be reddy for yuir special stash. not be4. ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720