From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mike Lee quotes Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:17:52 -0700
Who on this list can compare in terms of his writing skill? WHO I ASK!!!
I can name at least three.
However, methinks the question itself is flawed. Or at least put to the table at an inopportune time, and under less than amiable circumstances given the current disposition of certain (if not a 50% + 1 majority of!) list members regarding the irrepressible and dare I say, sometimes loveable, Mike Lee.
In contrast, if you had asked something to the effect of - "Who on this list can compare in terms of his entertainment value?" - which is quite deliberate I might add - then the answer would be, to put it mildly, a no-brainer, which could be summed up in one simple word - NONE.
From what I have observed in my relatively short tenure here as a listmember in regard to the above question, is that not one person on this list currently competes with Mike and his satirical prowess. The man is a veritable fount of satire in the most fundamentally literal definition of the word.
There is however a catch. Specifically being, that in my relatively short tenure here as a list member, I have not yet witnessed anyone actively TRYING to compete with Mike and his satirical rhetoric. Is it that no one can? I think not, as I have been duly impressed by the command that some list members have over the English language. As a side note, allow me to say that I am not easily impressed. In any case, the ability to construct compound sentences (and anything better than -"The dog is brown") does not construe true greatness in the field of the written word. On the contrary, it shows only that a particular monkey can climb trees just as good as a helluva lot of other monkeys can. True greatness, or rather true worth in words, comes from what's behind those words, and consequently what those words turn into at the conclusion of a thought and perhaps even at the conclusion of a coherent piece of writing, if one were so inclined to put SOME degree of effort into what they write.
In the case of Mike, he's just another monkey. Albeit a monkey that has a knack for climbing a specific tree. And for that alone (notwithstanding his permanent vacation from the concept commonly known manners) he should be applauded.
As for him being 'better' than everyone else...please. In our collective pool of intellectual prowess (always wanted to use that word twice in one post!!) here on the list, Mike but scratches the surface of the depths in which I know some people play. Such people are infinitely more interesting, but sadly not as fun.
-Travis "neutral" Edmunds
"Support bacteria, they're the only culture some people have." - Stephen Wright
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