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From: oleg@quad1.quad.com (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Flames
Message-ID: <1448@quad1.quad.com>
Date: 20 Jan 88 20:55:53 GMT
References: <7728@sunybcs.UUCP> <1429@quad1.quad.com> <8612@ism780c.UUCP> <7862@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: oleg@quad1.quad.com (Oleg Kiselev)
Followup-To: alt.flame
Organization: HASA
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In article <7862@sunybcs.UUCP> Fai Lau tells us of his weaning as a Master 
Insulter.
>It is easy to put five nesty
>words together and call it an insult. But there is more,
>there is class, style, wit, and the ability to get to
>the other people's inner most feeling and conquer it.

It seems to me that Fai Lau, in his naivete, has not fathomed the difference
between an "insult" and a "flame."   Too bad.  He may have to learn the hard
way. 

>All of us have grown up hearing four letter word
>insults. I don't think anyone can seriously get physically upsetted by them.

I agree.  I have never seen anyone go into convulsions or start throwing up
after hearing a "four letter word."  But that's not what "flames" are about,
as most of us know.   

Sigh...  Fai Lau has already displayed the obvious behaviours of the one who
has been severely flamed.  A number of people have noticed his attempts to 
improve his image and his boasting and bragging designed to intimidate his
opponents -- making a fool of himself in both efforts.  I shudder to think 
into what kind drooling, raving lunatic he is likely to turn if he REALLY
gets flamed...
-- 
Oleg Kiselev  --  oleg@quad1.quad.com -- {...!psivax|seismo!gould}!quad1!oleg
HASA, "A" Division

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