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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (18456)	5/1/2003 7:05:30 AM
From: Clappy	Respond to of 89467

Ya, sure Clappy. In less than 5 minutes I made all the edits necessary to still have a coherent post & do a Gotcha! You are getting fast. It's possible you realize that no one reads your messages any more so you can simply lop off huge chunks of them knowing that if you sprinkle them with things like "POV, "WMD", "JMVHO", "irrifutable facts", and other Oofisms, people will continue scrolling down doing their Evelynn Wood speed reading imitations as they glance past each paragraph until the see the end of it. You are getting slick. A true master. Alan Greenspan does it verbally. Not sure many people can follow along as he speaks. You can see eyes glaze over. In your case it is a little different. You are not able to see our eyes glaze over. But if you listen very carefully, you might be able to hear them glazing. It's a very soft sound. Not easy to pick up. You have to listen as if you are trying to hear your wife clean the kitchen counter top with a damp sponge as you sit downstairs. Listen. You can hear it. I noticed it one night when everyone was a asleep. There was a rather long message of yours with variable sized fonts and italics and such. The usual long one explaining some newly spun facts or something. I just listened. And I listened more. You could hear a feather fall it was so quiet. It was then that I began picking up a very strange sound. It was the sound of peoples' eyes glazing over. Then I could hear two other distinct sounds. One was the little wheel on the MS mouses that allow you to scroll up and down. I could hear those wheels being manipulated as quickly as possible to bring them to the next message. Scrolling too fast to read. Then I heard other people grumbling because their mouses weren't equipped as such. I could hear them tapping on their left mouse button over the little bottom right arrow doing the speed scroll to the next message. In between clicks of their mouse was the distinct sound of eyes glazing over. Try listening after the next long message of Oofisms. It is fascinating. -ListenerOfTheQuiet