Barry, if you put as much time and energy into writing
your novel as you do writing fiction about me, you'd
have finished it long since.

One comment on an especially amusing part below; the
rest is so obviously from Mars it needs no comment.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" <mainstream20016@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > For a day or two this posting week,  a glimpse of maturity 
> > appeared.  Now, the sixth-grader has reappeared.  Go away, 
> > sixth grader ! Don't take the bait ! Re-enter the classroom 
> > devoid of juvenile neuroses.  You can do it.  
> 
> Actually, she can't. That's what makes it 
> Borderline Personality Disorder.
> 
> She *started* the week attacking me, stay-
> ing up so she could get in the official 
> "last word" from last week,

Right, "staying up" till 7:00 p.m. EST.

<guffaw>

 posted at lit-
> erally one minute before the end of the 
> last posting week. (How "six years old" 
> is THAT?) Only 40 minutes later she had 
> to do another "Bash Barry" post, because 
> I guess the first one hadn't really
> gotten the venom out of her system. 
> 
> *Then* she "laid low" for a couple of days,
> obviously so stung by having been easily
> lured into posting out early every other
> week for months that she was trying desper-
> ately not to do it again. It helped that I 
> was doing exactly what I said in my CORRECTOR 
> Newsletter parody and ignoring her silly
> ass, and giving her no provocation.
> 
> Then someone called her on her BPD and she
> seems to have lost it, reverting back to
> her standard M.O. in post #242471, dropping
> back into Victim Mode. I made a few posts
> critical of or making fun of the TMO (*not*
> her personally, *not* TMers as a whole), 
> and she (for once) *didn't* jump on them,
> preferring to "simmer" in Victim Mode until
> Monday. 
> 
> I meanwhile continued as usual, making fun 
> of That Which Deserves To Be Made Fun Of, 
> the TMO. And the occasional individual TMer 
> who deserved a pranging, such as JohnR. She 
> then dropped the pretense of not being in 
> "Bash Barry" BPD Mode and made nine posts 
> in a very short time either bashing Barry
> or "correcting" something he said. Or, even
> more insane, pretending to be replying to
> one of them as if she expected an answer,
> when she hasn't gotten one in months.
> 
> Enter Curtis, nailing her on her "TMers 
> Rule" elitism. And it's "off to the races" 
> again. Having gotten someone to actually 
> *participate* in one of her venom-fests, 
> she managed to slip my name into almost 
> every one of her subsequent exchanges with 
> Curtis. A dispassionate viewer might think 
> that she was actually more interested in Yet 
> Another Opportunity To Bash Barry than she 
> was in the pissing contest with Curtis. 
> 
> At this point I had *still* not entered the
> fray and commented. Then, last night, I did.
> And the six-grader took over, in full BPD
> Mode, and will remain in charge until she
> posts out again early this week, even after
> trying desperately not to by "laying low"
> the early part of the week.
> 
> Could there *BE* a more classic case of 
> Borderline Personality Disorder? She'll find 
> a way to turn almost *anything* into an "attack,"
> because the inner child inside a near-70-year-
> old woman is so damaged that it only feels
> "real" and "alive" when it thinks it's being 
> "attacked" and has to defend itself. Or others,
> who not only never asked her to defend them,
> but are embarrassed when she does it.
> 
> It'd be almost entertaining (in an ongoing,
> predictable, soap opera kind of way) if it 
> weren't so sad.
>


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