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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael M who wrote (54506)	9/4/1999 3:13:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

In this case, "hissy fit" is purely descriptive. It describes, for example, your response to my "figured you were drunk" riposte. I will reproduce your post for you in full, in case you do not remember it. Very subjective observation Missy Joannie Baloney. Did I say I was drinking last night? I think not. Feel free to check. "Too polite to say so last night" -- and yet -- not too polite to say so today. Hmmmm. You speak with forked tongue, writer woman. Perhaps you'll favor me with a typically long and condescending explanation of what "the Real Joan" is like. When you get to the "politeness" part, please guide me with numbered and lettered paragraphs and maybe one of those journalist-like "edit" thingies. I will repeat the fact that you addressed none of the issues I put on your table last night.....always taking a word or phrase and deflecting attention from the issue. This is the same crap we get from pols (choose your party) -- they talk and talk and talk but they NEVER answer the actual questions people put to them. BTW, a prudent, if not minimally "polite" person might consider an apology for posting a possibly slanderous msg. Or, were you just being "hypothetical" again? As for your latest complaint -- that I did not add a smiley after my "figured you were drunk" remark -- I find it very odd, in view of the fact that 1) you did not put any into the semi-jokey post to which I was responding (were you really joking?), and 2) you make a point of stressing your distaste for smileys in general. For example: I certainly agree with your observation re. use of the smiley thing. Unfortunately, I stubbornly refuse to use them and see them as a bit of a crutch. Joan is educated to the nth degree and there is no shortage of female lawyers here. No doubt they all got through school with flying colors without the first smiley in any of their books. (To Michael Cummings) Please read nothing into absence of "smiley" -- not fond of the things. Personal quirk. (To Edwarda) E expresses an opinion to Steven -- Joan wants to know why E is "browbeating" him. Asked ever so sweetly, complete with a &*#?+@ smiley -- the Leo Buscaglia of smilies. What comes after gentle persuasion, Joan -- medication? (To jbe)