[lit-ideas] Re: VERY VERY VERY GOOD NEWS
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:54:27 -0500
Except I wasn't supporting you. I saw yet another instance of people
thinking insult means love, admiration, whatever. Let's see, how's this
for an explanation: if you're her daddy figure, maybe she's really jealous
of your kid. No? Okay. But I wasn't supporting you. It was a
philosophical position if you read my posts. Right in there with Clashes
of Barbarians, who go to war and call it love, etc. etc.
> [Original Message]
> From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/4/2006 12:47:58 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: VERY VERY VERY GOOD NEWS
>
> Dear Irene and others,
>
> I deeply appreciate any support I can garner in this world and I deeply
> appreciate your supportive intentions. But Paul is right. Erin and I
are
> friends and tease and taunt each other freely. It might seem strange
that
> people so disparate in age could be friends, what on earth do we have to
> offer each other? Well, I presage for Erin how her parents will be in
years
> to come and she reminds me of what my children were like when they were
> young. It's a fair exchange.
>
> I'm not going to lecture Paul on the need to be sweeter to those who come
to
> my defense even if in error, but only because he too came to my defense
in a
> kind of round about way. Nor will I lecture Phil even though he didn't
come
> to my defense, round aboutly or otherwise, but because like him, I am
> infinitely patient. Nor and I going to lecture Carol K and Omar K (hey,
> there's a coincidence -- or is it?) for using my Subject heading to
insult
> one another. I count both as friends of mine and won't have them
> quarrelling over my Subject. Which Subject is, if Lawrence didn't
notice, a
> tease at him -- the "very, very, very" -- so I've been very, very, very
> inclusive in my group hug.
>
> Thanks to all who sent mazel tovs and mazal tovs and simcha tovs and
simcha
> tovas and congrats. Maybe all this bickering over the birth of an infant
> forebodes a new religion. Maybe she's the long awaited Messiah. I hope
she
> fares better than Jesus did.
>
> Thanks all. Pictures to follow soon.
> Mike Geary
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 10:57 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: VERY VERY VERY GOOD NEWS
>
>
> > So you think nasty is clever, good for you. But you also think it's
> > pharma's right to rip us off. You think immature behavior is fine
because
> > everybody does it, etc. etc.. That's your right. But don't go telling
me
> > that something disgusting isn't disgusting. Or go ahead and tell me, if
> > disgusting is normal and acceptable for you. As far as David thinking
> > it's
> > funny. I like to think he's in denial but maybe he really thinks it's
> > funny. Good for him too.
> >
> >
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: 3/3/2006 11:49:42 PM
> >> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: VERY VERY VERY GOOD NEWS
> >>
> >>
> >> >Now why am I not shocked that you write this? A congratulations is a
> >> >congratulations, and that was a crock of shit in the "I was only
kidding
> >> >category". I'm getting to where more and more I agree with Kurt
> > Vonnegut
> >> >when he says the Earth will be happy to shake the human race off one
> >> >day.
> >> >There is *nothing* good about these loathsome little creatures called
> >> >humans. That anybody can think as disgusting a comment as that is is
> > put
> >> >forth as a congratulations is not helping me change my mind. If you
> > think
> >> >her congratulations is clever or cute, then you're fucked up.
> >>
> >> Listen dickhead, Erin is a personal friend of Mike -- something which
> >> is COMPLETELY evident from the conversations -- let alone the pics
> >> that are posted on the blog as well as previous Erin's posts linking
> >> us to her shutterbugs or whatever -- here of the last couple of
> >> years.. Her 'congratulations' was meant as a joke which harkened back
> >> to the discussion of the pronunciation of Mike's grandchillin's name.
> >> So quit callling me fucked up when you are so clearly suffering from
> >> one of your cluelessness episodes. As David said "now THAT'S Funny"!
> >>
> >> paul
> >>
> >> _________________
> >> [insert pithy quote here]
> >> Paul Stone
> >> pas@xxxxxxxx
> >> Leamington, ON. Canada
> >>
> >>
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