Re: BANANAFISH digest 851

rev. bob pigeon (sid-vicious@mindspring.com)
Wed, 03 Nov 1999 16:34:00 -0500

>hey hey hey fat alberts...
>    i just want to say sorry about that all caps message, i had no idea it 
>meant "screaming." i guess i'm not in with the whole computer- minded 
>paranoias, but in my humble opinion it seems a little bit anal retentive/ 
>obsessive to perceive a type face as someone screaming at you. Maybe it's 
>just a paradigm that i am not in, or maybe i'm just not as sensitive when it 
>comes to what the letters on the screen look like-- i mean they're just 
>letters...

YEAH YOU PSYCHOS, WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT THAT ANYONE WOULD FIND A BUNCH OF
CAPS ANNOYING OR OFFENSIVE?  IF YOU ASK ME, WE SHOULD CAN OUR WHOLE SYSTEM
FOR THE SAKE OF THE POOR IGNORANTS...IT'S TIME WE ADMIT THAT COMMON SENSE
MANDATES THE USE OF CAPS LOCK...I MEAN, WHEN WE WRITE LETTERS TO FRIENDS,
DON'T WE ALWAYS WRITE IN ALL CAPITALS?