Recommendations

[Joel Katz]

listen, gentle.  check the record.  i am nuts.


>From: "David Gentle" <Gentle_Family at btinternet.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Recommendations
>Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 04:07:38 -0000
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joel Katz" <mittelwerk at hotmail.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 3:40 AM
>Subject: Re: Recommendations
>
>
> > melinda, i would suggest 'the girlfriend's guide to baby gear.' stretchy
> > bras that simply allow you pop your breast out are becoming very 
>popular.
>Hi Joel. I think we all appreciate your decision to join in with the 
>discussion but I'd like to make
>a couple of points about your discourse so far:
>1: Of course flaming is okay and common on this list but please consider 
>that your attempts so far
>have been limited in scope, particularly compared to some of our more 
>distinguished contributors.
>Bear in mind that many of the regulars have had a number of years to build 
>up their reputations as
>flame mongering assholes as well as a lifetime of reading only the most 
>aggressively uncooperative
>literature and I think you'll see that it takes a very particular sort of 
>maladjusted, shut-in
>weirdo to get the sort of reputation that our most elite lunatics have 
>garnered. Perhaps it's just
>your failure to have build up a suitable "foebase" thus far, but it may 
>also be the school yard
>level of your taunts. Try deeper attacks on people's characters and 
>political motivations coupled
>with targeting specific individuals on a regular basis. If you manage to do 
>this continuously for
>several years you might, just might, become a hallowed member of our 
>community.
>2: Try to stop being a dick.
>
>Thanks!
>
>David Gentle
>

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