A Plea for Sanity

Forty notes:
**** that ****.


as predictable, as it is trivial, a comment.
Tom

Tommy Littleton sneered:
Forty notes:

**** that ****.

as predictable, as it is trivial, a comment.

No more trivial than your hypocritical plea, just quite a
bit less verbose.

--
Ken Fortenberry

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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Tommy Littleton sneered:
Forty notes:

**** that ****.

as predictable, as it is trivial, a comment.

No more trivial than your hypocritical plea, just quite a
bit less verbose.

--
Ken Fortenberry

listen, ken, i need you to tell me the truth about something: who the
**** *are* you?

if you are the guy i met at the first clave, and have since, on several
occasions, fished with, drank with, laughed with, argued with, and just
enjoyed a sense of friendship with, but who simply has this inexplicable,
and apparently irresistable, need to become the virtual embodiment of the
term "asshole" during your participation in this newsgroup, then i can deal
with the situation, as we all must do as long as you post here.
but if the "real" ken is a charade, put in place to permit your
occasional attendance at gatherings of folks who enjoy a common recreational
activity, without having your ass chewed out or whipped, as the need might
arise, then let me know the truth. in that fashion, if the answer to the
latter scenario is "yes", i can merely return your sophomoric "**** you"
response on the web and in person, and both of us can get on with living a
little more closely to the truth. in my view, that is what we should all
try to do, without regard to how close to perfection our individual truth
might be.

and , fwiw, tom littleton is as far away from hypocrisy as your online
persona is from a state of grace.

your friend in the old north state
wayno

Wayne Harrison wrote:

listen, ken, i need you to tell me the truth about something: who the
**** *are* you? snipped

Which is the "real" wayno, the scourge of the newbies or the Kumbaya
evangelist from the guitar group, a friend of mine, or a behind my
back tutor who teaches "roff according to wayno" via email ?

You and Tommy both are all-star hypocrites. I can't be more truthful
than that. It's sweet that you feel compelled to squeal like little
school girls when Louie gets a well-deserved bitch slapping, but he's
a big boy now, when he dances the flamenco on his dick with track
shoes he deserves to be good and thoroughly bitch slapped. I can't
be more truthful than that.

I am Ken Fortenberry, if that's not what you expected either change
your expectations or learn to use your killfile.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Forty notes:
You and Tommy both are all-star hypocrites

I'll let wayno speak for himself, but I would like to ask: Where is my
hypocrisy? First, my post went far beyond the recent exchanges with Louie, and
yes he did act poorly(I noted a possible excuse, but it is just that, a sort of
rationale for out of character behavior). I was responding far more to: 1. The
noted dearth of new blood
in the posted stats; 2. The TONE and personal nature of attacks of late and 3.
The lack of consideration between folks who seem to have a long, positive
personal history. Now, how that gets to be hypocrisy, looking back on what and
how I have exchanged thoughts over the past 9 years, I can't figure. It is
interesting that you, and you alone, take personal offense to my plea.
FWIW, I have NEVER killfiled anyone, of my own choice. I figure it leaves me
unable to rejudge a person's character or motives.
Yes, I can, and do, avoid a lot of threads, once they bore me. I know perfectly
well that all of us can. I still don't see where, to those to whom ROFF
matters, a need exists to act like a perfect dickhead, or an insensitive jerk,
to people you interact with.
Enlighten me as to your reasons, if you have them.
Tom

Tom Littleton wrote:

... Where is my
hypocrisy? First, my post went far beyond the recent exchanges with Louie, and
yes he did act poorly(I noted a possible excuse, but it is just that, a sort of
rationale for out of character behavior). I was responding far more to:
... 2. The TONE and personal nature of attacks of late and 3.
The lack of consideration between folks who seem to have a long, positive
personal history. Now, how that gets to be hypocrisy, looking back on what and
how I have exchanged thoughts over the past 9 years, I can't figure.

I had never, so far as I knew, ever had a cross word with you,
hell I've never even met you, when you ripped off a vicious
personal attack. I was surprised and I didn't know what to think.
You've repeated the performance on a couple of occasions since.
Therein lies your hypocrisy.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken writes:
I had never, so far as I knew, ever had a cross word with you,
hell I've never even met you, when you ripped off a vicious
personal attack. I was surprised and I didn't know what to think.
You've repeated the performance on a couple of occasions since.
Therein lies your hypocrisy.

ok, Ken, we have a semantics issue here.
By personal attacks, I was referring to attacks taking a low road(ie: attacks
dealing with an individual's personal life,
health, relatives,etc). I realize perfectly well that exchanges between
individuals here, or anyplace, will involve pointing a single person out. My
"attacks" upon you were an expression of my dismay on the seemingly ignorant
manner you choose to display when attacking others. Yes, I feel you behave like
a complete asshole on here. Yes, I believe you behavior influences the choices
of others to be here. Further,
I feel you are a perfect example of the kind of Usenet participant who talks
one way online, and hasn't the balls to do the same in person. I would be more
than happy to say so to your face, should I encounter you.
All this said, you were far from the source of my original post here. I was
responding to a seeming avalanche of poor interpersonal communication.
hypocrisy my ass,
Tom

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Tom Littleton wrote:
snip


I had never, so far as I knew, ever had a cross word with you,
hell I've never even met you, when you ripped off a vicious
personal attack. I was surprised and I didn't know what to think.
You've repeated the performance on a couple of occasions since.

What? Was Tom trespassing on your turf?

Therein lies your hypocrisy.

Being a sweetheart in person and an asshole on ROFF --- that's hypocrisy.

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

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote You and
Tommy both are all-star hypocrites. I can't be more truthful
than that. It's sweet that you feel compelled to squeal like little
school girls when Louie gets a well-deserved bitch slapping, but he's
a big boy now, when he dances the flamenco on his dick with track
shoes he deserves to be good and thoroughly bitch slapped. I can't
be more truthful than that.

I am Ken Fortenberry, if that's not what you expected either change
your expectations or learn to use your killfile.

--
Ken Fortenberry

ah, well, i am old enough to realize that friends are easily made, but
lost only with difficulty and regret. sorry, ken.

wayno

Wayne Harrison wrote:

ah, well, i am old enough to realize that friends are easily made, but
lost only with difficulty and regret. sorry, ken.

What in the hell are you sorry about ? Or are you a graduate
of the Dave LaCourse school of insincere apologies ?

--
Ken Fortenberry