Re: Ridiculousness

[chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)]

In article <385t15$rg4@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> you write:
>In <m0qxnmV-000imBC@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu>, chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) writes:
>
>[a bunch of stuff that I agree with]
>
>Hey, hey, hey.  Just trying to inject a (very) little humor into an
>uneccessary argument.  You're right.  I think Marcel acknowledges
>that you're right.  I certainly think that you're right.  However, the
>vehemence of your response was off-base.  Period.  Had you responded
>in a lighter manner, only to be attacked by Marcel, _then_ I would say
>that your rather heated response would have been required and
>appropriate.  As it was, Marcel suggested (a poor suggestion, without a
>doubt) something and you came down on him with a wrath and fury
>that, I would say, was uncalled for.
>
>Anyhow, this little thread looks like it is a bit too heated for my
>tastes.  I simply think that you could have told Marcel why his suggestion
>was wrong _before_ you picked him up and body slammed him.  No
>need to be so defensive.

   Well, I've already apologised, so please let me just point out that I
wasn't slamming Marcel. I was slamming the idea. A suggestion that
needed a helicopter spin, followed by a piledriver.


                          Chris Williams of
                             Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
                               chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (his)
                                 vickie@njin.rutgers.edu      (hers)