Steely instant bummer

[Henry M]

How does one post the type of admiring whistle that Donald 
Sutherland's character used as commentary throughout M*A*S*H the 
movie?

On 27 Jan 97 at 17:36, MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:

> >I am glad Steeloid closes his latest screed w/ a quote from H.
> >Adams about lies and little 
> boys.  They got you good, Steely, so good that it seems you are
> still just a poor little boy.  I am really tired of your
> narrow-mindedness coupled w/ your long windedness.  Not that I mind
> being insulted, but you rarely support your insults except w/ stupid
> slapdash pseudo-rationales.  I usually resist being drawn into any
> discussion you are a centrally involved in, but this just takes the
> cake: > >Ever since Mascaro weighed in with his astonishingly
> moronic commentary on >that Kenosha Kid, Orson Welles (Gregg
> Toland's cinematography alone vaults >CitKane to the top five films
> of all time), I've only read about one out >every 20 postings to
> this list, which seems to be ensared in an entropic >tailspin.
> 
> So, I'm supposed to say, like, wow, steely, you sure showed me?  I
> still say the film's overrated, but more to the point, the whole
> Welles exchange was characterized by fun, play, a little wit, a few
> good puns.  I learned some stuff from goodman Don L. and had a good
> feeling about the list, a feeling I usually have until you drop one
> of your methane stink bombs in amidships.  You, Steelman, are a
> shit, ok?  You are what we used to call in college an *instant
> bummer.*  You have NONONO sense of humanity (much less of humor), or
> of the relativitiy of good people's thoughts.  Though I agree w/
> much of your attacks on mainstream, McKinnonian feminism--though not
> w/ your personal attacks on DYB whom I know to be a person of
> integrity and good will--I think it's about time someone pointed out
> to you, fella, that fucking JOURNALISTS are much more responsible
> for keeping the Man in charge than are academics or feminists.  You
> guys are the real running dogs of lackey imperialism.  OH,OH,I
> forgot, your personal politics and mode of life are, I am sure,
> utterly pure, yet you are tarred with the same brush you wield so
> stridently in your wholesale denigrations of all those professions
> you deem unworthy.  A-and stop dropping names alla time about your
> *good friend* Alex Cockburn etc.
> 
> I noticed you never even acknowleged that Penny Padgett awhile back
> had responded to your churlish challenge to quote some good VINELAND
> passages; she dropped a coupla real winners, but no acknowledgement
> from you.  This is a typical Steeldroid ploy.  Most folks on the
> list believe in some mode of civility, some give and take betwixt
> us.  Only boreasses like you, smugly convinced they have all the
> answers, seem unable to acknowledge that learning is a lifelong task
> and that all of us can learn somethings from each other.  Sorry that
> schoolteacher fucked up your little boyhead so badly, Steely.  Good
> thing there's still people who will publish you, two-fisted writer
> that you are, putting your bread on the table and your foot in your
> mouth.  I am glad that my moronic post got you to cut down on your
> p-list reading.  Now if only I could figure out what to write that
> might make you so disgusted that you'll just kinda--go away--for
> good, and leave us morons to the infinitely more rewarding task of
> teaching things to each other rather than bullying and browbeating. 
> 
> 
> But I want to repeat:  Journalists have bloodier hands than either
> academics or feminists.  Write that twenty times on the board,
> little man, before you go to recess.
> 
> john m
> 
> 

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