The Flintstones

[Jules Siegel]

At 05:25 PM 05/2/97 -0400, still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was
made <traveler at afn.org> wrote:

>Jules, I'm not trying to win any awards for my insults.

You couldn't if you tried.

>This is not a pissing contest.

Then why are you urinating on my shoes like a silly little puppy and then
running around yipping that I'm all wet?

>What I said about your article, I genuinely meant!  Try to grasp that.  

I do grasp it. I also am being quite factual when I tell you that this is
the first time anyone has said anything like this in such sneering terms.
Your opinion may be genuine, but you are really out there by yourself on
this one.

I believe that Michael Glosup did dismiss the value of the information that
the article contained, when he was trying to rationalize a really unfair
attack for which he later very generously apologized. But he did thank me
for posting it to the list and he did not attack my qualifications as a
writer. Here's what you said:

>This guy, a wannabe writer[1], is just trying to cash in on long ago
knowing a famous and reclusive (and REAL) writer

Then when I defend myself by pointing out that your opinion is rather
unusual, and as far as remember, endorsed by only one other person on this
list, and that, in fact, I receive at least one letter a day complimenting
me on it, you dismiss me this way:

>[bragging deleted]

I'm not bragging. I'm just offering a bare list of things I've published
without any comments.

>*laugh*  Your bio says you are over 60 years old.  I am less than half your
age.  I am not your "enemy."

Then why attack me in such unfair and insulting terms?

>All of us here are too old for the junior high school lunch room.

Then why use these adolescent tactics to defend your previous insults? Now
that you've actually looked at my bio, do you still feel it's remotely
reasonable to call me a "wannabe writer?"

>I just think you're ridiculous.

The feeling is mutual. Do you realize what a fool you look like? And how
foolish I am to condescend even to reply, when I originally promised to
ignore you? Wise up kid. You've got egg yolk all over your face and you
think it's some kind of gold medal.

Try working on your hopelessly contrived address. No wonder you can't think
straight. You're caught in some kind of logical trap that you're trying to
pass off as a humorous oxymoron -- looking for something that never was and
couldn't be in the terms you state it. Keep jokes like that short if you
want them to be effective. And leave rap to the rappers. You haven't got the
touch. Reminds me of a WASP trying to imitate Myron Cohen ordering a
pastrami on white toast with mayo. Apply privately for an explanation, if
that doesn't make sense. We've bored everyone quite enough by now.

Solder! Very small, flat tin can. Put him on the shelf, Sean! 

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