Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!wbt From: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Flames Message-ID: <14035@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 15 Feb 90 16:10:06 GMT References: Reply-To: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker,00440,cb,1D211,6148604019) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 37 In article jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) writes: > >It has been said that "flames are in the eye of the beholder". >This, of course, is nonsense. The fact that you cannot understand what is and is not a flame does not grant truth to your own definition. Rather, it merely serves to explain why, when you *do* flame, you do it so poorly. [this is a flame] >Reality is independent of perception. Did Beethoven write good music ? [this is not a flame] >Pun for the day: > "I'm a sucker for vampire stories." > -- Chuq von Rospach Your incessant regurgitation of old puns makes me upchuq. [this is a flame; for bonus points, decide *who* is being flamed] Tomorrow's lesson: How to tell the difference between being made to look like a fool because someone flames you and being made to look like a fool because someone flames your article. Our special guest lecturer will be Ted Kaldis. [this was a flame] - - - - - - - - valuable coupon - - - - - - - clip and save - - - - - - - - Bill Thacker AT&T Network Systems - Columbus wbt@cbnews.att.com "C" combines the power of assembly language with the flexibility of assembly language.