Re: Maliciousness in Love-Hounds

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

|>oug \/\/rites:
>In article <D2HIvz.9zq@freenet.carleton.ca> aj796@freenet.carleton.ca
>(Tippi Chai) writes:
>
>>   Unfortunately personalities are as different as snow 
>>   flakes, and some people tend to stir up friction a lot; in the case
>>   of LoveHounds there just seems to be a larger than normal proportion
>>   of them!
>
>I don't think that this is a phenomenon that is exclusive to
>Love-Hounds.  I mean, even with the amount of differing opinion here,
>it is mild compared to even such groups as comp.lang.c++.  You just
>have to keep in mind that when someone posts to the net, the effect of
>the computer on their personality is the equivalent of a six-pack or
>two.  Now, what would you expect a bunch of drunk Kate Bush fans in a
>bar to sound like?

   Actually we already know. After the 1984 Winnepeg Bush-Con, many of
us went on a river cruise. Some of us got fairly snokered. The boat
had a piano, and somebody recorded the unholy caterwauling of a
whole bunch of drunken Kate Fans attempting to sing "Don't Push Your
Foot On The Heartbrake." You can imagine.

   

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