Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!wdl1!jrb From: jrb@wdl1.UUCP (John R Blaker) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Scattershot (Part 1) Message-ID: <162@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 02:59:29 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.162 Posted: Sat Feb 25 02:59:29 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 04:40:47 EST Lines: 55 SCATTERSHOT; or, A Collection Of Random Flames By Evelyn (A Modified Dog) Forenote (not yet flaming, but possibly smouldering): As a relative newcomer to the net I (Evelyn, a separate personality from John) feel a need to define some feelings about flaming. To wit: Net.Flame exists because there are a bunch of us who sincerely believe in freedom of speech and are willing to put our opinions on the line (pun intended, ha-ha) to back it up. Howsoever that may be, I feel a certain level of maturity is necessary on the net: To wit, that there is no need to descend to personal abuse. I'm always happy to get responses (to which end I'm about to express some of my more unpopular opinions), but I shall simply ignore anyone whose response in on such a level. Such persons are simply *ssh*l*s. (First flame there: The proper way to bowdlerize a word is to substitute asterisks for vowels.) ***FLAAAAME ON!!!!!!!!*** 1. Re: Traffic Violations. I favor making traffic laws far stricter. I would recommend suspension (beginning at two weeks for small speeding, first offense) for **ALL** traffic violations, mandatory jail sentence for any act which provably endangers the life of others or for driving without a license. As for tailgaters, they are *ssh*l*s. I apologize for that term to any of you Gentle Readers who are tailgaters, but...If you want to risk your life, that is your lookout. If you want to risk mine, you are a dangerous criminal. If you fail to recognize your criminality you are stupid; and if you are intelligent enough to use this network and yet stupid enough to fail to recognize dangerous crime you are an *ssh*l*. QED. (Quite Easily Done?) Having gotten that off my chest, I will admit that when bored on the freeway it's a lot of fun to tailgate a Pinto. Just to watch 'em squirm. 2. Re: Literacy. I have already made my opinions on this subject clear. To the fellah who criticized my previous failure to use the shift key, you were 100% correct. I was being lazy. To those of you who disagreed with me, you are wrong. Plain and simple. There is no excuse for mental laziness (mine or yours). 3. Re: Ronnie, Ronnie, he's Etc. How anyone can still believe one word that comes out of that man's orifice (I refuse to stipulate that it is his mouth) amazes me. Totally aside from the fact that I live in Berkeley, a city which still bears **physical** signs of his triggerhappiness as governor; totally ignoring the failure of reneganomics (sp. intentional); and totally leaving out his visits to the Fountain of External Youth (which have in no way slowed the decay of his brain), the simple fact is that he contradicts himself on a daily basis. The simple fact remains that his closest advisors remain leftovers from the reign of Richard the Rotten. And the simple fact remains that his naive belief that because there has never been a nuclear holocaust means that there will never be one frightens me beyond words. This logical formalism proves that I am immortal: I have never died, therefore I never shall. I'll miss you guys.