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From: elag <elag@cloud9.net>
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Subject: Re: i sELECT YOUr death
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:46:40 -0400
Organization: Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose
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Paul Heslop wrote:
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> elag wrote:
> >
> > Paul Heslop wrote:
> > >
> > > elag wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Paul Heslop wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > >
> > > > > > > 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!
Maybe you just need a good prop, like all those method actors use. The
old standard is the cigarette, but I won't recommend that in
consideration of your lungs and the lungs of all England. Props are
used by many people to relieve anxiety.
Some good props:
1. Glasses: for fiddling with, or dark ones for sheilding
2. Tools: no one is nervous when carrying a sledgehammer
3. Carrot: it always worked for a certain skwewy gwey wabbit, also
good for enticing reticent draft animals
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