Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!hubcap!disd
From: disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CRETIN MANOR MAIL
Message-ID: <3220@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 15:56:20 GMT
References: <7699@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Lines: 56

From article <7699@gryphon.CTS.COM>, by jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow):
> In article <9809@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com writes:
>>
>>                           CRETIN MANOR MAIL
                        [Deleted for brevity's sake] 
  
> As I flamed before, you illiterate cretin, I was there at the party. That code
> wheel made use of that stupid EA product rather difficult. Jerry was not the
> person trying to run it. I was as wella s three other computer literate guests.
God, I'm sorry I started these code wheel discussions.  Let us lighten
the hell up for awhile.  And if you can't lighten up, at least take the
personal attacks to email.   

I'm sorry if we're attacking your pal Jerry, but we don't get to rub
elbows with him and attend his killer (and obviously, dark) parties, so
we don't know him very well.  In fact, the only way we get to know him
is through his novels and his "Chaos..." column.  We see in said column,
slanted view points and out-and-out untruths, and we don't like it. 

> 
> You a**holes are the reason Jerry is so put off on the Amiga. He cannot seem
> to say boo without some illiterate flaming him for stupid reasons.
Woah!  Because *we* don't toe the Jerry line, he hates the Amiga?
Really?  Such power we have.  Doesn't say much for his evalulation
process, does it?

The problem is that he says boo for the wrong reasons and ignores the right 
reasons to boo.  Not just in the case of the Amiga but in any number of
situations, he chooses the silliest reasons to like or dislike
something.  How can I be expected to do anything but bitch at him when I
haven't been given any good reason to respect his authority?
It has been said that he speaks for the great unwashed
computer masses, and that may be true, but only because he is one of 
few people speaking.  What he writes becomes gospel to those who have no
other experience.  Sort of a self-fulfilling prophesy.    

> 
> Meanwhile, it seems you are way to dumb to understand sarcasm when you see it.
Sarcasm, hmm?  Maybe in the case of the code wheel, but in the past his
"sarcastic" comments have probably cost sales, and they are not always
justified comments.

> Go back and crawl under the rock you came up from under, twit. You have
> managed to rather infuriate me this time.
Obviously. :-)   Listen, if you feel like we're taking pot shots at
Jerry behind his back, you may forward any of my comments to him that
you wish to.  I'm not a BIXen, so I don't get to see what he has to say
over there.  

Gary


-- 
Gary Heffelfinger  -  Not speaking for Clemson Univ.  (ISD)      
uucp: ... !gatech!hubcap!disd    inet: disd@hubcap.clemson.edu
---===      Amiga.  The computer for the best of us.     ===---