Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:49:57 -0400
From: Michael Harrawood <mharrawo-AT-fau.edu>
Subject: PLC: George's big day/was: whatever


George Trail writes:

>Tell me, Michael, what does Tiger Woods smell like?  

George, this is nuts.  Its hysterical.

Looking over your posts for today, I feel like its deja vu all over again.
You're repeating all the moves you used in the Troy-boy exchanges.  You
start elbowing hh and saying "Can you point Barron to where he can go to
catch up on race theory [because he disagrees with you]. . ."; then you
post a few things about "Barronic facts" ; then, re Pat Sloan's
"obtuseness" (who somehow becomes "Sloan" in one of your posts -- no doubt
because you're so impassioned) you write "Howard, you must give it up.  And
now finally, you ask Pat "Who the hell are you to lecture me?" and you post
"This is a pile of shit."  You have done all this before, especially the
cutsey back-and-forth with Howard that leads to your more self-righteous
abusiveness.  Soon it will be time for Reg to come in again and remind us
about how you're really all fuzzy and cute beneath the grumpy old man.

Maybe everybody else on the list likes this.  I don't, particularly.  What
I am having trouble getting past is your territoriality and your meanness.
The pleasure you take in teasing others and provoking the lowest kind of
exchanges.  Somebody came out of lurking during the Troy-boy stuff to
object to the way you and hh were dominating the list; and then went back
into lurking saying that talking with you was turning her into a version of
you.  She was right.  It was.  It must. ("No, George, I don't know what
Tiger smells like.  But I know what YOU smell like!"). I would like to find
a way to post to this list without having to talk to you the way you talk
to me (and everybody else).  So, I'll repeat to you the question I posted
before:  Are you sure this is the way you wanna go?

I was very interested in George Barron's query about Literary Saints.  But
the posts have mostly just run over the same ground as always -- lots of
name calling and bitterness.  This, along with the samples from you day's
work that I cite above, I call hysteria.

Michael Harrawood



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