> > Michael was clearly offended by Howard's phrase > > "village idiot", and everything continued downhill thereafter. > > He may have been offended, but the phrase wasn't mine. I do not deal in > epithets on the net. I believe Roman apologized to someone for some > offensive remark "this village idiot" (i.e. Thames) made, and Thames then > said that Roman was the real village idiot, at which point the phrase was > familiar enough that I used it as a heading when I asked Thames to stop > gratuitously insulting Arthur Ness. But nothing went downhill at that > point; it was already pretty much at the bottom. In fact, the catfish have already panicked and ran away...
> I have to say it did get > weirder when Thames told me a week later that female members of the list > didn't find my posts sexy. I suppose he used the intervening week to poll > them, but I must say it's not a question that would have occurred to me, > since I never considered the lute net an avenue of seduction. You should., It is known to have occurred a few times. RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
