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

[minuet@indy.net (Cold Fusion)]

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