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From: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Miss Manners invades alt.flame
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Date: 1 Feb 88 18:11:24 GMT
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>>>>In article <19180@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
>>>>>Was this posting really necessary? [...]
>>>So, why is it that you follow up an argument with such a piece of
>>>pointless offal?

>In article <8801261319.AA01734@wheatena> wheatena!gsmith (Gene Ward Smith) writes:
>>  Once again: THERE WAS NO ARGUMENT! None! Got it? I followed up
>>a pointless piece of offal with more pointless offal, that's all.

In article <19551@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
>You neatly argued yourself around to my original point.  "Was this
>necessary?" I ask.  You reply, "I merely followed up a pointless piece
>of offal with more pointless offal, that's all."  So, by your own
>admission, it wasn't necessary.  ;-)

In this h'yere article, I write:

Hey, jimmy bay-BEE!  This is alt.flame.  Why don't you take your smug little
adolescent "Aha! Now I have you!" bullshit to alt.sophomoric.debate.  Smitty
didn't "argue himself around to your original point".  Can't you get this?  HE
ISN'T ARGUING, HE IS FEEDING YOU A LINE OF BULLSHIT (Keep up the good work,
Gene! :-).  You act like you want this to be some kind of debate, like with a
point to be supported, and elegant logic, and all that high-school sophomore
shit (how old ARE you, anyway?).  WELL IT ISN'T.  So cut the shit.  Sheesh!


Be seeing you...
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