On Dec 31, 3:18 am, rw wrote:


That shows to me, Mike, an insightful look into your troubled
personality. Admit it. Life on Usenet (ROFF in particular) isn't like
real life. Get used to it.

The only effective way to deal with these clowns is to laugh at them.

BTW, I have a laughable photo of Fortenberry in his pear-shaped-body
glory, getting ready to jump into the dreaded borrowed belly boat at
Grinder Lake.

It's funny. He was like a duck in room-temperature bowl of gelatin --
barely made it to the fishing spot at the inlet, and then complained the
whole time. Left early. What a wimp.

I'm tempted to post it on abpf. No requests, please. It's too cruel,
even for me.

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

That is probably correct, for a while I had a great deal on my plate.
Also, I still expected people to be "normal" on here. Obviously silly
of me, but as I wrote, it is easy to be clever with hindsight. And
others often see one´s mistakes before one sees them oneself.

O would some Power the giftie gie us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would from many a blunder free us,
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress and gait would leave us,
And even devotion!

( From Robert Burns. "To a Louse")

I really have no interest at all in what he looks like, and I really
have no interest in denigrating or deriding him gratuitously or for
any other reason than his behaviour towards myself and others on here.

I don´t think it´s a good idea for you to do it either, but of course
that is your affair. It is tempting to retaliate in kind, but if you
do, then you are no better than he is.

He calls you gay, so you call him fat and ugly, etc etc etc. Just
pointless, and then both parties are guilty of the same sin.

If he tells a lie about you, and you call him a liar, that is another
matter entirely. You are merely defending yourself, and with the
truth.

TL
MC