Re: Who's Dr. Tom?

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <42f7nh$crc@newslink.runet.edu>,
Dennis McClain-Furmanski <dmcclain@runet.edu> wrote:
>Nathan Mates (nathan@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
>: The four NTGS (type 2) modules contained on 'VAMPS 2 x 4', have all
>: been completely digitally remastered, and may cause the following
>: psychoacoustic and/or physioacoustic effects; VORTEX VIRTICULAR
>: BACKLASH, SPINAL VACILLATION, NEURAL (WHOLE-BRAIN) RESONANCE, BODY
>: CAVITY RESONANCE, INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT OF THE BODY APPENDAGES, GOOSE
>: BUMPS, EUPHORIA, AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS, SPACIAL, AUDIO TEMPO AND
>: TEMPORAL DISTORTIONS BY ILLUSIONS.

>I can see why that it would bother you.

>You have a defective irony gland.
>Do not attempt to read humor. You are incapable of metabolizing it.

   You really think the above is irony? Let's have a dictionary judge
the above...

{nathan@off/42 ~} webster irony
iro-ny \'[0xF5]^--re-ne^- also '[0xF5]^-(-e)r-ne^-\
[L ironia, fr. Gk eiro^-nia, fr. eiro^-n dissembler]
(1502)
1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another
     assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous
     by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2a: the use of words to express something other than and esp. the opposite
     of the literal meaning
2b: a usu. humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized
     by irony
2c: an ironic expression or utterance
3a (1): incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events
     and the normal or expected result
3a (2): an event or result marked by such incongruity
3b: incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying
     words or actions that is understood by the audience but
     not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony,
     tragic irony
syn see WIT

   Hmmm, definition #1 definitely does not apply; Dr. Tom has far too
much of an ego problem. #2a seems most appropriate, and can be
translated as follows: "Dr Tom's lying his ass off, and doing that for
humor."

>And you thought *he* was the one having problems with reality.

>This is just sad.

   You may find such toxic spewage from Dr. Tom knee-slappingly funny,
and prime examples of razor wit, but the majority of this newsgroup
have not consumed the same substances as you two. The reality of the
whole matter is that Dr. Tom has zero proof or grounds in reality for
what he claims, he's pirating software like Platinum Paint, and his
taste in music is absolutely atrocious.

   My problem is that I don't want to fuck up my life by ingesting
the same garbage as Dr. Tom, or develop a tolerance for such blatant
lies and bullshit. Just because you're the one apologist for Dr. Tom
here right now doesn't mean that your warped views of the universe
can be called "real" over the objections of a far greater number in
this newsgroup.

Nathan Mates



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