jbor's zipper

[Henry Mu]

I've been on this list forever, but you'd havetahave serious emotional
problems (not that I don't) to keep track of the P-List flames. I don't even
remember some of the ones that I was involved with.

There useta be woman who'd close her P-List message with something like
"Putting on my flameproof nightie" if she'd posted something that might
evoke a tongue of fire. I always thought that it was sorta cute and it went
a long way to keeping the flame-wars in perspective. She was off-list for a
while, was back on recently, and now she's off again. I don't know, but I
imagine that she may have been driven off by some of the bellicose,
repetitious, knee-jerk, ill-considered rants that have taken the place of
intelligent discourse on this list since... Well, in particular, since
11-Sep. I understand that everyone is irritable, but "Why can't we all just
get along."

"Brother, sisters! Who's fighting, and what for?" M. Jagger at Altamont.

----- Original Message -----
From: <barbara100 at jps.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: jbor's zipper


> I have no knowledge of  the Monroe history behind this insult.  But I can
> read well enough to know Dave's alright, and I have sense of humor enough
to
> laugh when somebody makes you look foolish.  'Scratch jbor's zipper'--it's
> hilarious!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
> To: <barbara100 at jps.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:43 AM
> Subject: Re: jbor's zipper
>
>
> >
> > Right, it's perfectly acceptable for Dave to cast insults, but not OK
(by
> > his code) for me to answer a challenge from a third party regarding the
> > amount or quality of Pynchon content in my posts.  That's very
consistent
> > with his record of dishonesty, all done w/ a cutesy little "who me?"
> smirk.
> >
> > And BTW, if Barbara were really a newbie here, she'd have no knowledge
of
> > the Monroe history of accusation behind this latest insult:  a defining
of
> > "teams" by he and Doug that is erroneous, but useful for their pattern
of
> > name-calling and persecution-bewailing.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > >From: <barbara100 at jps.net>
> > > >"It was rather witty, wasn't it?"
> > >
> > >You bet it was witty, Dave.  I'm still laughing.  I think Pynchon would
> > >like it too.
> >
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