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To: LindyBill who wrote (70671)9/16/2004 4:06:24 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 794268
 
Did we get excited and congratulatory about it? Damn straight we did! The toppling of "The Evil Empire" of CBS news by the "gutty little bloggers" was a sight to behold. I doubt if we will see it's like again.

Apparently we have no disagreement on the facts of the matter. That's the way I called it.

The only person who I know who reads everything here is me.

I used to. Until the Swiftvet and Rather affairs made the thread volume go bonkers. I think that thread participants have a responsibility to either keep up or keep out of the way so I kept up. This morning I found more than three hundred posts awaiting. That's beyond my limit.

I was going to let this go, but you have made several comments along this line today that are sticking in my craw.

I never intended to make an issue of it. I made a couple of playful pricks in the general direction of your bubble over the last week or so and that was it. It would have stayed dormant had I gotten a simple answer to my simple "which documents" question.

I respond to every request for clarification of my comments as straightforwardly as possible. I think that's simple courtesy. It is also my practice to straighten out any incorrect assertions about what I said or what I think. It was in the course of the latter that you got your crawful. I regret that result. I would not been so outspoken about it otherwise.

Otherwise, you will have to change your handle from "kholt" to "wetblanket." :>)

I acknowledge my propensity to yank the chains of wretched excess when it becomes, well, excessive.

You use of the term, wet blanket, and your earlier use of the word, fun, remind me of something that happened to me not long ago. I was confronted by a neighbor out front who mistakenly thought it was I who had complained about his neighbors' parties. His neighbors had been holding parties up to several times a week. Participants gathered around the fireplace in their courtyard laughing and yelling and singing at the top of their lungs with an electric guitar well into the early hours of the morning. I couldn't sleep and I'm sure at least a hundred of my neighbors couldn't either.

When the neighbor confronted me, his argument was how much "fun" those parties were and what a "wet blanket" I was for complaining. My counter included the characterization of the party-givers with the expression, raised by wolves. Obviously we had different perceptions of the practice.

Besides being the only two usages of "wet blanket" in recent memory, the stories have in common their ability to illustrate what happens to people's sense of proportion when they get caught up in something.
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