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Wolfgang wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
. ..


I've lived in rural Idaho for five years, now, and I've never met anyone
who comes even close to the maniac you described.

In fact, I've found that folks around here are FAR more civil to one
another than people in (for example) the SF Bay Area. My community is
full of long-simmering feuds that will go all the way to the grave, and
maybe beyond, but strangers are treated with respect.


Really? So, you've moved since you mentioned that a moderate to large crowd
of them would bravely band together to stomp the **** out of someone who
gave voice to an unpopular point of view?

Strangers are treated with respect UNTIL they start mouthing off in a
cowboy bar. The typical bar fight, however, is caused by a local hitting
on a tourist's woman.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

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"Larry L" wrote in message
...

I've had 4 guns seriously pointed at me in my 12 to 14 years g ( thanks
Mr
Gang, I needed that, I was feeling kinda old ) and two of the guns were in
Idaho ... both times by people I can only describe as reminding me of
Deliverance ( sp ), the movie, scary back country, government hating,
paranoid, weird, and both times scared me ....

WHAT??!! Only four times SERIOUSLY??!! I'm going to go out on a limb here
and guess that it has never occurred to you that the SERIOUSLY ****ed up
world you live in has precious little to do with the planet you happen to
inhabit. I have spent a lifetime handling guns and surrounded by other
people with guns. I have lived in Milwaukee, Miami, Atlanta, and Baltimore.
I have spent a great deal of time in Chicago and Philadelphia, and a bit in
many other major metropolitan areas. I currently live in what is politely
described as a "mixed" neighborhood. I have NEVER had a gun pointed at
me.....well, I HAVE encountered a significant number of careless fools who,
I assure you, learned a hard lesson about carelessness.....but I think that
if it ever happens I will very likely consider it SERIOUS regardless of
circumstances. To think of ANY such incident as anything other than
EXTREMELY serious is to betray a level of stupidity that should certainly be
viewed as criminal.

the other two times were cops

Oh, well, that's o.k. then. The result of being shot by an officer of the
law is not at all the same kind of dead........right?

... not a big problem ...

Well, as long as it's YOU, and not me, I guess we are agreed.

Wolfgang
who, reading some of the **** in here, is never quite sure if he did too
many drugs or not enough.

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"rw" wrote in message
. ..

Strangers are treated with respect UNTIL they start mouthing off in a
cowboy bar.

Stepping in something that one preferes to avoid can generally be shrugged
off as carelesness. Stomping on it repeatedly is bound to be a bit more
difficult to explain. Good luck. :)

The typical bar fight, however, is caused by a local hitting
on a tourist's woman.

My, my......how charming and respectful.

Wolfgang
who swears to god that he does not pay these people to do this..

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Wolfgang wrote:
"Larry Medina" wrote in message
I guess the drugs are working


Maybe better than you thought. Um.....you DO know that you've been MIA for
a while.......right?

Well, yeah... and your point is? I dunno, I might be better off for
having been gone for awhile. Having been on the sidelines seems to have
it's advantages at times =)

L

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Larry L wrote:

... If I'd have been a roffreader back on
those days, I might have emulated our fast thinking, all balls, heroes
around here and said, " You are a worthless ****ing putz you asshole
trailer trash maggot." ...

If you're stupid enough to flap your jaws at a guy holding a hand gun
you ain't emulating anybody around here that I've ever met. But you're
the guy who spent a summer in a trailer in West Yellowstone, right ?
Maybe you are that stupid.

--
Ken Fortenberry

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"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
...
All,
It has been noted, by some who a regulars, and some who are less
frequent
posters, that ROFF has gotten nearly painful to read of late. Bitter
exchanges,
misinterpretations, off-hand insults and the like are far too common, the
latest example being Dave LaCourse's "dialogue" with several folks.
Perhaps it
is, as suggested, the annual "cabin fever". I think, in some cases, it
goes
deeper than that. Here in the US, we are in the midst of a divisive
election
year. Further, as noted in his own posts, David has some serious health
worries. I think such worries can, and do, color one's tolerance and
manner of
dealing with others. About a year back, Mike Connor and I had a bitter
exchange, which upon reflection was probably made ...

.... Take the tongue-in-check stuff with a grain of salt,
understand the limitations of Usenet communication and try to bring
something
to the table that is positive once in a while. I'll probably get the
predicatable amount of response along the lines of "don't tell me what to
do...",etc, but really couldn't care less. I am not telling anyone what to
do,
just hoping that some can find it in their souls to do the right thing,
and act
like adults.
Tom




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