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My original comment AFTER Larkin's snide MIT remark was...
"AIRI all the BU girls used to parade naked before their open dorm room windows advertising their "wares" :-)" [the statement henceforth referred to as the "insult"]
But it's a truthful statement. I can round up hundreds of MIT guys who viewed same, thru telescopes on the Memorial Drive side of the Charles (frat row). Until Larkin's punk MIT remark, I didn't even know his wife went to BU.
(Larkin didn't back up his "wait tables" with the name of a restaurant, as I asked... I think he made that up... he makes up a lot of things.)
Since then Larkin was so hostile, citing the "insult", that I have indeed played it against his manic-depressive self, by rubbing it in, deeper and deeper.
And I don't call any of my kids or grandkids, "the brat" >:-}
Larkin is a true nutcase _forever_. ...Jim Thompson
Asshole and moron. I rest my case.
John
You'll never be a lawyer :-) The nutcase moniker sticks on you with super-glue tenacity. ...Jim Thompson
He spent all his time peeping into girls' windows, which is why he didn't learn basic electromagnetics. Luckily, it was decades before my wife was there, so he didn't get to leer at her.
John
Green and slimy? Figures.
--- Just because you think your wife and kids quiver in the background and beg you to protect them when you're away, battling in the fray, doesn't mean that they're off limits.
This is USENET, where there are no rules, so your family is fair game whenever you post anything about them.
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--- "She obviously lets him do the decorating."
What's that supposed to mean?
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--- No, you don't.
You like to drift threads in whatever direction is required to make it seem like you're a winner.
-- JF
Larkin is not only a manic-depressive nutcase, but illiterate as well... he can't read or comprehend simple sentences... maybe blowing Slowman all the time has blocked up his ears :-) ...Jim Thompson
It's that lack of Lithium ;-) ...Jim Thompson
Geez!! I reckon we orta lock all you ladies in a room and let ya settle all this "na na Na na-na" stuff away from tech groups.
Rheilly P
sci.agriculture.poultry might be appropriate.
John
Larkin certainly fits in there with the fairies. ...Jim Thompson
And the race to the bottom accelerates...
Really??? I realize that civilization as we know it is only a paper-thin veneer over top of 20' of barbarism, but do you really need to be running around brandishing a belt-sander.
Consider consistently showing a bit more civility than (you feel) other people deserve.
You know that I'm a West Virginia country boy street fighter... ;-) ...Jim Thompson
So, what is the appropriate next move in this game of savagery? He mentioned that his son died of cancer. Is that now fair game? Should I express joy at that? Would you?
John
Why must you embarrass West Virginia?
Jim, you may be a charming person face to face, but It doesn't come across as well over a chunk of Cat 5. And I'm not singling you out - I'm sure that everyone currently involved in this little s*it-flinging spree is a lot nicer in person and I'm sure that if you all met in a bar after a conference, you would all get along just fine, or at least acceptably well. So crack open a bottle of red, relax, and don't say anything about anyone that you wouldn't want them saying about you.
Learn how to quote properly, f*****ad.
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