Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Well-Known Wombats in the Fine Arts Message-ID: <169@pucc-i> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 16:17:08 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-i.169 Posted: Mon Jan 30 16:17:08 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 06:29:40 EST References: <552@seismo.UUCP> <522@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 28 > FLAAAMMMMEEEEEE OOOOONNNNNN!!!!!!!!!! > Well, now that does it! This is net.flame and that is just what > I am going to do. Just how long do we have to put up with this > cutesy-poo crap about wombats? 388 lines devoted to the most > inane garbage I have seen in years. You want to talk about wombats? > Take it somewhere else. This has been the most childish display of > immaturity I can remember since my college days. It reminds me of > a bunch of first graders telling chicken-crossing-the-road jokes > with different, non-funny endings. Grow up wombat submitters, it > ain't funny no more. At least take it over to misc or jokes where > the rest of us can ignore it. Little minds do little things. > > T. C. Wheeler I can understand (albeit with great difficulty) why someone might flame about the NUMBER of wombat articles, but not about their LENGTH. What difference does it make that the article was 388 lines? It takes the same amount of time to press the "n" key whether it's 3 lines or 3000. You DID press the "n" key, didn't you? -- Dave Seaman ..!pur-ee!pucc-k:ags "Against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."