In <19960922023806125.AAA206@GIGANTE>, on 09/21/96 at 07:38 PM, Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc) said: You are being gently flamed because. well, I look at creative writing in a different light: a) sarcasm is always in season b) Dr. Dimitri is always an excellent target c) if I had $10 for each sarcastic eoast in CP over the last 3 years I could retire in the style of tcmay, rather than the restrained mode I am retired. d) is there ever any dicussion on CP which does not flame out? e) your 'gentle flame' is a great idea. is it copyrighted f) CP charter was violated so often in last few years that I, and several others started a splinter for code only. if you can't handle the fun, sign off... g) CP's charm is it personalities last, but least: h) join the humour, or... well, lighten-up. [X] you continued a boring useless stupid thread see item a) above [x] you repeatedly initiated incoherent, flaky, and mindless threads et tu. brute? [x] you posted a piece riddled with profanities I beg to differ with you! since when is allusion or illusion profane? [x] you posted some sort of crap that doesn't belong in this group] see a) above, *again* [x] you made a bigoted statement(s) hmmm, not on this one. besides, since when have we advocated PC speech [x] you repeatedly assumed unwarranted moral or intellectual superiority I stand far back in the line for honours on that one --maybe in 2002? [x] you are under the misapprehension that this group is your preserve yes! absolutely! but, I share it with 1000+ others [x] you repeatedly shown lack of humor one man's "plum" is another man's "prune" [x] you are apparently under compulsion to post to every threat wrong! I trash 75% before opening! [?] you are posting an anonymous attack check the spook records listed under "Ace of Swords" >>> Thank you for the time you have taken to read this. Live n' Learn.<<< your pleasure is my pleasure. -- "He said, `You are as constant as a northern star,' and I said, `Constantly in the darkness ? Where's that at ?'" --Joni Mitchell