HAHAHAHA! LOL! Punching a baby! BWAHAHAHAHA On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 14:38, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:22, Elton Woo wrote: > > > A: <enter flame, long, illogical tirade here> > > Yup, it's a fact of life, top posters never die ... well actually they > die of old age first, then grow younger for 80 years, until they regress > into a Stanley Kubrick rebirth paradox. > > However, flaming them is pointless, since 50% of all top posters are > clueless newbies (flaming a newbie is like punching a baby) and 50% used > to be clueless newbies who were flamed for top posting and, in an act of > defiance, stood their ground so as not to lose face, even though they > secretly knew they were wrong. The result is a swarming army of "Top > Poster Club" members who are more likely to continue doing it, simply > because you tell them not to. > > Then again, who the hell do we think we are, telling *anyone* what to do > ... right? > > That's right; Top Poster Club members have a lifetime Gold Pass to post > their messages upside down, incorrectly spelt, poorly punctuated and > completely off-topic ... er ... just like this thread. > > Let me remind you of a wonderful device for hastening the termination of > a "bad" thread; "Godwin's Law" (normally used in the context of Usenet, > but a mailing list is similar). Best of all, to invoke it, one has only > to quote it: > > "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison > involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." > > The end. > > -- > [H]omer > >
