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Subject: Re: i sELECT YOUr death
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:12:59 GMT
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elag wrote:
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> Paul Heslop wrote:
> >
> > elag wrote:
> > >
> > > Paul Heslop wrote:
> > > >
> > > > elag wrote:
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > My son thought it was ace, along with morse code and other teen tools.
> > > > > > He also had those signatures which changed daily etc. I used to change
> > > > > > my posting name daily. Sometimes I wish i still did :O)
> > > > >
> > > > > Changing too often is a bad sign, I think... digital schizophrenia.
> > > > > Keeping an anonymous nickname, isn't a bad idea with all the nuts one
> > > > > runs into. You never know when one of them might like to move beyond
> > > > > textual taunts.
> > > >
> > > > Only digital? :O) I actually went through a phase where I had like six
> > > > different pauls, each with a number and used the one to fit the mood. I
> > > > got fed up of having to change signatures etc.
> > >
> > > Down with Sock Puppets!
> > >
> > > I've been known to send an anonymous message or two. I usually fool
> > > around w/ the "@" symbol:
> > >
> > > surre@list.net
> > > leaveme@lone.gov
> > > vaf@nculo.it
> > >
> > > it is slightly amusing.
> >
> > I have another identity which is not greatly hidden, just an email addy
> > I hardly use and which is set up not to blare my name. I just change the
> > name part to whatever is handy for joke purposes, never sinister.
> > Someone posted a message in an English NG, simply asking where Mel Wilde
> > was. Nobody had the slightest idea who or what Mel Wilde was, so I
> > 'became' them, using them as a comic vehicle so when people are stuck
> > with something they shout for Mel Wilde and up he/she pops with an inane
> > answer.
>
> That's a pretty funny story. There's a nick to be proud of.
>
> > There are no circumstances where I would feel the need to post
> > anonymously to hurt someone. If I have something to say I say it, and if
> > it goes down badly or some idiot wants to create a few obscene
> > newsgroups because of that then so be it.
> > Usenet is my only permanent contact with the outside world, the other is
> > tenuous at best.
>
> You do still talk to people, though? Usenet is an interesting method of
> communication, but it's no substitute for regular human interaction...
> unless you're snowed in near the Arctic Circle. Actually that's sort of
> a dream of mine... Snowed In... with plenty flapjacks... plenty
> butter... plenty syrup...
:O) I went through a period where I couldn't even talk to my wife,
honestly. I used to carry a pillow around which I held in my lap. I
wasn't a drooling idiot or anything (really!) but I just couldn't
communicate. It was bad enough being shy as a child, but this took the
biscuit.
Now i go through periods. At the moment, thanks to the digicam, I am
getting out and about, but a couple of words from someone can destroy
that and living in the kind of area we do doesn't help.
If someone speaks to me, off the cuff I'm usually okay, and sometimes i
can even start a conversation, but I'm always aware that this can just
stop very suddenly and my absent mindedness doesn't show as much on
usenet as it does in real life. I can even forget what I'm saying mid
sentence!
--
Paul. (I never agreed to be Your holy one)
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