RE: The End Of The World

L B ([email protected])
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 03:36:10 EST

Okay, I know this is a couple days old now, and someone has probably
pointed out the correct spelling by now, but I can't wade through the
past 2 days postings right now, and this is really bothering me. Not
just the spelling, but this guy's attitude. I didn't respond to his
previous post because it didn't seem worth it, but now he's attacking
our whole group for refusing to beLIEve his wife's information. But,
this is not a personal attack on him. Only on his grammar. Or at
least, this post started out that way.

Poptician wrote:
> I WROTE THIS:
> "Besides Tempe their will only be seven more stadium dates on a
> tour dominated by multiple-night arena shows similar to
> their 'When Love Comes To Town' Tour">
> RGWGRGW WROTE THIS:
> >you moron, you need to learn better grammar. on that part that
> mentioned LoveTown you used "their" instead of "there".
> >geez, I guess there are a lot of illiterate people out there.>
> Actually the tour itself belongs to U2 so the possessive form is
> correct. You are the illiterate one.

Actually, I think the "their" this person was correcting was the first
one: "Besides Tempe _their_ will only be..." It should be "Besides
Tempe _there_ will only be..." Now, that is really getting nit-picky,
but this guy is getting awfully defensive of something he didn't write,
and if, after having the mistake pointed out to him, he still doesn't
see it. . . I just couldn't help myself.

>- -This is not my normal address. I foresaw the flames you ignorant
>fools would send to me and so I
>created this account to block my regular address from all of your
>ranting and raving letters.

He calls us all ignorant fools, and creates an excuse for using a
specially-created address. I'd say that shows us that it is a hoax, and
he assumed we would believe it because, to him, we are "ignorant fools."

>- - I never said that the memo was an official Polygram Records
>document. It was written out by
>someone at the company who has information about the band and then
>circulated throughout theoffice.

Poptician, or whatever he calls himself, might not have said that it was
official, but he did say that his wife was 100% sure that the
information was correct. I find that misleading.

>I am honestly hurt by
>the way you assholes doubted my motivations and called me a liar. So
>please, if you disagree with
>me (a.k.a. deny the truth) just say so without getting personal.

I'm not overly upset by this guy, or his information that we presume to
be false. I'm just a bit annoyed by how he deems it necessary to talk
down to all of us (all 4,000 +), calling us "ignorant fools," and
"assholes." If he doesn't want us to get personal with him, why does he
feel the need to get personal with us? I don't think this mailing list
is a place to judge, and he is threatening us because he feels
threatened himself. ("They've found me out, I've got to defend myself
somehow," he's probably thinking.) I just don't agree with the way he
defends himself.

JOEL: What would happen if "Poptician" did overload our e-mail systems
somehow? Would you boot him out? It doesn't really matter, does it,
since he already told us that Poptician isn't his regular e-mail
address. Maybe you could give him a warning of some kind? I hardly
think that would be very effective, though.

Anyway, I love you all, and I think you are all wonderful, brilliant,
creative people, no matter what "Poptician" says.

Dreaming with stars in my eyes,
LB

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