"Are you an idiot?"

;-)

|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|| Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 12:23 PM
|| To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| Subject: RE: sorry,
|| 
|| 
|| Why does it have to be an either/or choice?  Lets do 'em all!!!   ;-)
|| 
|| Scott Shafer
|| San Antonio, TX
|| 210-581-6217
|| 
|| > -----Original Message-----
|| > From:      Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|| > Sent:      Monday, May 07, 2001 4:52 PM
|| > To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| > Subject:   RE: sorry,
|| > 
|| > Folks, let's deal with this in the following fashion"
|| > 
|| > 
|| > 0) Whine and bemoan the loss of decency in everyday life, 
|| >    the callowness, the reprehensible lack of self-control,
|| >    and the horrid manners of Robert Hutchins.
|| > 
|| > 1) Send out a team to Robert's place of business and 
|| >    either stone the walls, picket on the sidewalk, 
|| >    or promise a boycott of all office products that
|| >    will bring Staples to its knees in Chapter 13, 
|| >    forcing his management to fire him, leaving him
|| >    jobless and loveless in a cruel, bitter world, 
|| >    finally so miserable that he commits suicide. 
|| > 
|| > 2) Pat ourselves on the back that 'we'd never do something
|| >    that rude.' and wait for the next offender. 
|| > 
|| > 
|| > OR
|| > 
|| > 
|| > 0) Go after the "idiot" directly, in full psycho, old world
|| >    SA fashion. "You should know better", "Read the Trucking
|| >    Manual", "Get off the list until you know better", etc. 
|| >    Drive him off the list in the way that only the members
|| >    of an elite technocracy can.
|| > 
|| > 1) Send out a team to Lando's place of business and apply
|| >    the same methods as at Staples, mutatis mutandis, 
|| >    forcing Dulcian into Chapter 13.
|| > 
|| > 2) Pat ourselves on the back, etc. 
|| > 
|| > 
|| > OR
|| > 
|| > 0) From now on, no matter who writes, on what topic, and 
|| >    regardless of content, we as a list respond with a flurry
|| >    of emails that say only "Are you an idiot". This actually 
|| >    contains less letters than "Read the Freaking Manual" and 
|| >    has a certain personal flair in addition to its obvious social
|| > charms.
|| > 
|| > 1) Wait until Jared, Bruce, Jesus, or whoever is REALLY in charge
|| >    of the list kicks us ALL off the list, one by one.
|| > 
|| > 2) But, immediately get a new account under a new name, and keep 
|| >    joining the list, and answering people's technical questions 
|| >    with "Are you an idiot?" For added value, send a bunch of 
|| >    technical questions of your own to the list-admin address, 
|| >    despite any corrections you may receive. 
|| > 
|| > 
|| > OR
|| > 
|| > 
|| > We could just forget the whole damn thing. ( sung to the tune
|| > of "Potato, Potatoe,...Let's Call The Whole Thing Off")
|| > 
|| > 
|| > Yours in Joy and Cosmic Bemusement, 
|| > 
|| > 
|| > etc. 
|| >    years. Finally, the list itself will turn
|| > 
|| > 
|| > || -----Original Message-----
|| > || From: Kevin Kostyszyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|| > || Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 5:21 PM
|| > || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| > || Subject: RE: sorry,
|| > || 
|| > || 
|| > || Amazing....yet true......
|| > || 
|| > || -----Original Message-----
|| > || Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 5:01 PM
|| > || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| > || 
|| > || 
|| > || Boy, did I call that one, or what?
|| > ||  
|| > || Whoo-eee, here comes my career at Psychic
|| > || Friends Network, doing MS-product support!
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|| > Author: Mohan, Ross
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