Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 17:29:40 -0800 From: "Thad Q. Alexander" <rattler-AT-inreach.net> Subject: Re: PLC: Freedom of speech means even Pat Sloane gets to speak John Whalen-Bridge wrote: Freedom of speech means even Pat Sloane gets to speak My Gawd skippy! Now your catching on!John Whalen-Bridge also wrote: > I also agree that certain people lower the quality of discussion on a > regular basis and so should not be surprised when they are shown the door. Bye-bye John > The PhilLitCrit people are patting themselves on the back about how well > they are handling George Trail--and Andreas is exactly right when he says > that this attention-grabbing behaviour is NOT the purpose of the list. The > list isn't supposed to be that, whatever it IS supposed to be. And he wrote: > George Trail calls someone a nitwit, Michael Chase responds > that George is an asshole, GT responds to MC.... You might say we don't > need to be defended, but I for one think that GT's overall effect, which > includes reducing Michael Chase to namecalling, is clearly > a reduction of the list's overall quality. Where do you fit in John? Just an antagonist from another list group? And he also wrote: > One expects witty banter, an occasional shiv in > the ribs if one has left oneself exposed even, but not a dopey drunken > sophomore boys' club-verging-on-a-12-step-meeting. Right, I think I'll let the judges decided where you fit in on that one. > Finally, I think Andreas is a darling sweet man. Enough said here! Birds of a feather, peep through windows togather > One could rework Adams' definition to make it more positive > by saying that politics is the organization--as opposed to the > disorganization--of hatred. You must of left your politics at home when you came over here with a statement like: > Three cheers for freedom of speech, and for stupid people. (Insert "Goose step" here) And he still keeps going: > congratulations to phillitcrit for its new mascot, the cute little turd who > is wet behind the ears. John, what suggestions do you have for us here? > There have been a number of good > concrete suggestions posted about how to improve the situation. John, can you give us an example of these suggestions? > Now where is that unsub request . . . By Gawd! you have made the best by far! Ba-bye! > I'm not making this up, We know that John, ba-bye! -- Thad Q. Alexander (rattler-AT-inreach.net) OCC Undergraduate Long Beach, CA. USA --- CHAUCER-AT-listserv.uic.edu Phillitcrit-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU SHAKSPER-AT-ws.bowiestate.edu Great Books of Western Civilization --- For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. ---Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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