posted on October 6, 2000 08:44:14 PM new
Krs, let us bond. I too have been threatend with a vist from that Pat person.
Ohhh the humanity
One time (said in the same voice as, "One time at band camp" ) the evil, nasty, wedge wearing Pat said: Do you know IEnjoy your posts. Don't think I didn't know what she meant!
Edited to add: Once new broke of Pat's plan to visit the city passed an ordance that says, in effect, Pat and I are not allowed to be in the same city at the same time as the likelyhood of the National Guard being dispached was great. There was even a petition at the KOA camp ground.
[ edited by lotsafuzz on Oct 6, 2000 08:47 PM ]
posted on October 6, 2000 09:09:58 PM new
But Pat, I thoughtt that here, finally, I'd found a sanctuary away from your embarrassing and foppish adoration. Yet here you are.
I'll have to petition for local ordinances that will keep you at at least a fifteen mile distance.
We're not just talking internet here, folks. Pat's a local call.
posted on October 6, 2000 09:19:00 PM new
Fear not, Ken. I hate 880, hate the tube, hate the bridge, hate the backdoor past the airport. Why the sudden concern for your safety? If I'd REALLY wanted to jump ya, I'd've done so last year, when you were younger and firmer...
Lotsa, one of my sisters DID have Ginny dolls. I didn't know what they were. (I was only two at the time.) I ruined them trying to figure out how their eyes worked. To this day that sister will narrow her glance at family gatherings and remind me that I ruined her life...
posted on October 6, 2000 09:31:16 PM new
LOL! When I was younger and firmer?
Amazing comment, Pat. It wasn't my safety that concerned me, it was my fidelity, but with your remark I'm sure that the risk has lessened by expansion, as it were, Pumpkin.
posted on October 6, 2000 09:43:36 PM new
hahaha, don't call me Pumpkin unless you'd like to be referred to as LOL. Your continued fidelity has been ever uppermost in my mind, of course; I've enough grease on the rails to hell already without adding your lubricant to the mix...
posted on October 6, 2000 09:47:19 PM new
Good for you, and I've always known that. Yet you are one unique in not suffering from geographic undesirability.
posted on October 6, 2000 09:54:08 PM new
And, barring truces (such fragile things), we can look forward to a future lifetime of frollicking in Shiva's garden, interpreting the kama Sutra...
posted on October 6, 2000 10:07:07 PM new
I'm relying on that.
Imagine, whole days in which we've nothing to do but tell one another how much we ... uh, nevermind. I'll save that dialogue for its proper place in future history. And we WILL make history, you and I...
posted on October 6, 2000 10:12:35 PM new
No, I've never been threatened online. I have been online for 4-5 years now. While I don't use many chat rooms, I do post quite a bit on Usenet Newsgroups. And I post under my own name there--never used an ID until I started auctions & then I thought it'd be fun. No blocks on my email, either. I often argue with people on the NGs, many of whom are rabid flamers, and have never been threatened. I think this is because I always argue using logic, keep my cool, and never descend to the levels of language & behavior that often are used on the NGs. In fact, I have noticed that *their* language & behavior often improves during our arguments.
posted on October 6, 2000 10:21:51 PM new
Yep, Bunnicula, in my experience, newsgroups are THE place where tempers are allowed to soar and if threats are going to be made, they'll be made there. Personally, I go to newsgroups when I'm in the mood for a good flamefest. There are some TRULY insane people on some of them (my all-time favorite being a guy who calls himself "The Ambassador For Mankind" and it's fun (to me) to go a round or two with the likes of him from time to time.
Thank you for posting. While I do not wish to minimize the dangers of being online, I DO wish to point out that SERIOUS threats seldom arise from even our most heated "discussions".
posted on October 6, 2000 10:33:33 PM new
The vast majority of the threats are idle. Usenet is a hoot! I think I've been threatened with a lawsuit at least five times.
I just tell them, "First you have to find me, then you can serve me."
posted on October 6, 2000 10:44:19 PM new
hahaha, Dmercer, sounds like you know how to play the game and enjoy playing the game. Good for you!
Chococake, I missed your response earlier, and can only tell you that the older I get, the more I value the company of animals, too.
And yes, Ken, that's because I weigh 400lbs. and look like your Aunt Hepsebah BEFORE electrolysis...
posted on October 6, 2000 10:44:59 PM new
Lawsuits. LOL, yeah good one.
I like to use this one
"If, in reading this, you are uncertain as to whether a specific
statement is meant seriously or not, simply apply this rule of thumb:
If the statement makes you consider filing a lawsuit, I was kidding.
Ha ha!"
posted on October 6, 2000 10:51:25 PM new
Nope, never been threatened, attempts at bullying which I ignore because I refuse to lower myself to the perpetrator's level but no threats.
posted on October 6, 2000 10:57:00 PM new
Lawsuit threats are my favorites, ShellyHerr. "The Ambassador for Mankind" is suing L. Ron Hubbard in perpetuity (throughout all eternity, apparently, since the guy's been dead for twenty years) for having stolen his mind. I LOVE the Internet, hahaha!
posted on October 6, 2000 11:02:21 PM new
Glad to hear it, Calamity49. The bullying is part of chatboard life. So are the laughs. And ignoring what you really don't need is the perfect rebuttal to those who seek only to bait you. Heck, I'd have half the chatboard world on ignore right now myself except I find their comments so facking funny!
posted on October 6, 2000 11:08:43 PM new
You'd love this guy, ShellyHerr; he makes the most deranged OAI personality look like your sweet Grandma. He's without doubt the most whacked-out person I've ever encountered online (and I've been to some lulu places) and he's got a devoted cult-following of detractors (from Scientology and elsewhere) who take turns inventing new ways to tell him how crazy he is. THEIR remarks alone are some of the choicest I've ever seen...
posted on October 6, 2000 11:11:53 PM new
Onward and upward then, Calamity49! Keep laughing; it really is the best medicine and we've got trained bullies working for free to keep us happy!
posted on October 6, 2000 11:18:18 PM new
Do you have an AW email account, ShellyHerr? I can send ya a link to The Ambassador's newsgroup if so. Or, you may email me at: [email protected] (I think it *would* be a violation of the TOS here to point ya offsite in a thread.)
