[lit-ideas] META: list guidelines useful as a trapdoor on a lifeboat
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:18:44 -0400
JL: list guideline: don't insult people.
if you do. Apologise.
Look, I have no time to apologize. It would slow down my
E-insults. Don't be a jerk. Apologize? In your dreams.
Really, do you want me to accept you as you are, or do you
want me to like you?
Andreas Ramos felt demeaned when I ventured that he knew
about as much about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as his
cats did. I insulted David Ritchie by using the word
"batholith," and enraged Mike by suggesting that even if he
didn't believe in violence, violence might believe in him.
Judith Evans was affronted when I wrote that Nancy Hartsock
"needs to get out more." Simon was aggrieved when I (rightly
I think) called for the total destruction of the non-West.
Omar Costa Rica was likewise insulted when I compared him to
a hyacinth macaw and misspelled his name. John McCreery was
p.o.'d when I accused him of deliberately inserting product
placements in his posts. Paul Stone ... let me skip him, too
many contumelies to tally. Robert Paul is insulted by my
existence, though I try to offer more specific complaints.
Walter went into a transcendental high dudgeon when I wrote
that philosophy was the last resort of failed poets. Orion
Anderson should have been insulted when I implied he or she
was a spamming toadie butt-monkey for a pompous mercenary
psychobabble fool, but he or she was too busy spamming to
notice. I insulted Donal in W1 through 3 and then falsified
it. I blackguarded Veronica and Elvis Costello by
association. This for starters.
Apologize? You hire the secretarial staff.
However if you want to be insulted by Shakespeare, go to
http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html?
Yours in friendship,
Billingsgate de Nunciatori
____
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it;
if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful
instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that
we are at all times ready for War."
- George Washington, fifth annual address to Congress,
December 13, 1793.
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