Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uok.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uok!dwhitney From: dwhitney@uok.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: RE: RE: DAMADD call for new members - (nf) Message-ID: <22100011@uok.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 12:02:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uok.22100011 Posted: Wed Aug 1 12:02:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 01:45:58 EDT Lines: 63 Nf-ID: #N:uok:22100011:000:2666 Nf-From: uok!dwhitney Aug 1 11:02:00 1984 #N:uok:22100011:000:2666 uok!dwhitney Aug 1 11:02:00 1984 Andy Tannenbaum says ...what makes the difference is whether I think it's funny... There have been two responses to my flame about the DAMADD call for new members. Considering that's far fewer than I expected, I'll respond to both of them now. One said he was making use of irony to be funny. Pardon me, if I miss the point; making something serious into something funny. Based on that, I could run into the maternity ward of my favorite hospital and start telling dead baby jokes, right??? Yes, Mr. Tannenbaum, you DO judge me by what you post. But may I also say that the reverse is true, as well. I do not live to meet your approval, or your sense of humor. I am not a member of MADD, but all the same I just don't see the humor in that posting; maybe I should; but it just seems to me that the death of children due to drunks is a poor subject for humor no matter which venue you employ to express it. I'm sorry if you found my posting dull. You didn't have to read the whole thing, but you must have. Is the level of "dullness" (sp) a subjective determination? Or is it merely based upon the number of invectives and quantity of profanity that can be crammed into one line of text? If thats so, I guess I'll just be dull for the rest of my life. You said you if someone's little rugrat gets creamed by a drunk drive it didnt matter what was posted to netnews; maybe not in terms of that one child, but don't you think that the net reflects at least a smattering of public opinion? Granted, not everyone has access to the net, but still, first impressions are lasting ones, and if someone read that they might have serious questions about how seriously to take the net. Would you find jokes about the San Ysidro murders funny? I think it all falls in the same vein. Black humor. Maybe I'm in the minority here, and I don't mean to make anyone mad or start a name-calling contest. As the original posting was made to generate some type of response, I felt the need to post what I believed to be an intelligent, if too emotional, reply. Thanks for listening, David Whitney ctvax!uokvax!uok!dwhitney Not the official ANYTHING of the 1984 Olympics. P.P.S. We do agree on one point; drunk drivers are a menace to society, and your solution is the best one I've heard so far. I'd like to see the idiots picture, name and address plastered on the front page of every major newspaper and magazine, and have his car painted bright orange so everyone else will know when he is on the road and to stay the heck away from him....humiliation is a form of punishment that is ignored in this country. w