... you were attempting to be funny. So goes your attempt to salve your ego over having bombed. Wrong move. You're even more off-balance now than you were at first. I'm reasonably certain everyone else thought the joke was funny, Wrong. You mean he was reasonably uncertain? Or that he was unreasonably certain? -- Shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship) http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

barbara@bookpro.com wrote: Yet another remark he is going to misinterpret wildly. Gay-ron-teed. Do you think Tom is really as stupid as he portrays himself, or is he just pretending to be a dimwit? If he were that good an actor, he surely would be too busy with his Hollywood career to post to teh Usernets. -- Shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship) http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

Tom wrote: In fact, I have yet to see anything remotely resembling "reason" from any of you puff-balls. Oh, hey, would those balls be jumbo size, by any chance? -- Shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship) http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

Chris McGonnell wrote: I'm reasonably certain everyone else thought the joke was funny, and you huffed and puffed as a humorless fuckshit will, and the posters on ARK decide to see how long they could keep you posting lame follow-ups to their deliberate trolling. IFYPFY. -- Shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship) http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

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