Fwd : Re: it didn't work
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:47:39 +1000
Hi bananafishers. I'm here on this here sunny day to present the CHamill
Award for Ticking off a Bananafisher to Mort Sahl for following e-mail
(read at your leisure).
This is the core of my thesis, of which I have already expounded SO many
times. *Nothing* I post, or I imagine, that anyone else posts, is intended
to be a personal jibe. To me, everyone else on this list is a cyber-mind
with whom I exchange opinions, ideas, arguments (which are different to
insults) and sometimes, friendships of the pen-pal kind that only people
who have never met can. If I have an idea or opinion, I vent it (e.g.
sending a registered mail letter to JDS, which I still think was pretty
stupid). Why would I want to personally insult someone I never met? I would
hope everyone else has the same idea.
And Mort, if you're going to flame someone, PLEASE at least do it publicly.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
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> From: Mort Sahl <ringoworms@mailcity.com>
> To: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
> Subject: Re: Re: it didn't work
> Date: Sunday, 26 April 1998 10:24
>
> >
> >> oh, all the letter said was "this is an attempt at getting an
autograph.
> >If it worked,
> >> thank you".
> >
> >Well, that was a pretty dumb thing to do, wasn't it? No wonder
Salinger's
> >not on e-mail, cause there'd be *some*one out there who'd find out his
> >e-mail address and spam him with stuff like that. To treat him like some
> >sort of novelty or joke is to me not only puerile but rude to him as
well.
> >One of my favourite axioms is the one from `To Kill A Mockingbird' -
`walk
> >a mile in another man's shoes'. How would you like it if someone mocked
you
> >by sending them a letter like that?
>
> I would rather get something like that than an e-mail from some pissy
self-important
> bitch. But, I didn't get to choose.
Ah. As Louis Armstrong said : `And I think to myself ... what a wonderful
world' (: