Re: To Flame, Or Not To Flame, THAT is the question

[johnlb@Primenet.Com (John Bowling)]

In article <4gnno4$4q2@news.indy.net>, Cold Fusion <minuet@indy.net> wrote:
>In a pathetic attempt to turn this into a Gay Thread(tm),
>          johnlb@primenet.com (John Bowling) wrote:
>
>>On the other point he's trying to imply, there are a lot of gay people 
>>here, myself included (I'm sure he'll have some comment about that!).
>
>A comment? Ummmm...ahhh....err....congratulations?
>
>>So, Fusion, are you going to monitor the gay news groups so you can find
>>out who you can talk about here?  Or have you allready been doing so?
>
>Why is it that the net-fruits have to get their panties in a bunch everytime 
>someone online makes a homo joke? Geez you gals are soooooo touchy. Be young, 
>have fun, drink Pepsi!
>
>>You remember "Me thinks thou doest protest too much!" don't you?  Those 
>>who are very anti-gay are usually trying to convince themselves.  If you 
>>are comfortable with you sexuality, regardless of what it is, you don't
>>need to make a big deal of it or anyone else's.  And, please, when you 
>>respond to this, try to be reasonably intellegent about it.
>
>Oh yawn yawn yawn. First, I never said I was "Anti-Gay". Second, this is the 
>oldest net-fruit troll on the books: "You made a fruit joke, ergo, you are a 
>closet fruit yourself". How pedantic of you, please come up with something 
>more original than that to fling at me.
>
>And an interesting side-note, the quote you mangle above is "The lady 
>protests too much, methinks." [Queen Gertrude, _Hamlet_, Act III, Scene II] 
>It referred to Queen Gertrude's discomfort at seeing a scene portrayed in a 
>play which contained an imaginary queen who was busy listing several nasty 
>things she would wish on herself in the event should she ever choose to be 
>unfaithful to her husband. Since Gertrude married her husband's brother (and 
>was, hence, unfaithful), the scene was an affront because the imaginary queen 
>possessed a perceived virtue that the real queen did not, and was, well, 
>kinda rubbing her nose in it (Hamlet's intention, who wrote the play 
>to see how his mother and uncle reacted to it). So if you were going to try 
>to assign some contemporary translation to what Gertrude was saying, it would 
>probably be more along the lines of "that goody-two-shoes Queen on stage sure 
>runs her mouth a lot about how faithful and perfect she is....are you dissing 
>me, Hamlet?", NOT "I think that character has some sneaky hidden agenda, is 
>hiding some lurking compulsion, and doesn't really mean what she says". 
>Somewhere along the line, goobers such as yourself adopted perversions of the 
>phrase to mean anyone who brings up or pokes fun at <fill-in-blank> must 
>REALLY be surpressing an affinity\secret desire for <fill-in-blank>. Read the 
>play (this time with comprehension) and gain enlightenment, my son!
>
>Fusion
>Literary Critic
>
>To flame, or not to flame, that is the question
>Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the emails and posts
>	of outrageous cretins
>Or to take arms against a thread of troubles,
>And by spamming end them?
>                              -- Shakesfusion 
>
>


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