Ants!

[Nan]

On Tue, 04 May 2004 13:17:11 -0400, Marcia Pease
<mbear@nospam.address> wrote:

>In article <40943f55.1295763046@news.galilei.com>,
> raiar@bbs.galilei.com.nospam (Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.) wrote:
>
>> Hi Nan
>>
>[...]
>>
>> Off my soapbox!
>>
>> TTUL
>> Gary
>>
>
>Mr. Deutschmann: What makes you think it was *your* soapbox?
>
>Nan: Thank you for emailing me about Mr. Deutchmann's appalling
>"netiquette". If AHC were able to pay me as much as other groups, I
>could afford to monitor AHC more closely. As it is, I must depend on
>readers like you to alert me to problems.

I wondered where you'd gone ;-)

Nan

[Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.]

Marcia Pease <mbear@nospam.address> verbositized:

>Mr. Deutschmann: What makes you think it was *your* soapbox?
>
>Nan: Thank you for emailing me about Mr. Deutchmann's appalling
>"netiquette". If AHC were able to pay me as much as other groups, I
>could afford to monitor AHC more closely. As it is, I must depend on
>readers like you to alert me to problems.
>--
>Until next time,
>Marcey

Dear Marcey

I don't know who died and made you GOD, but USENET newsgroups are open
unmoderated forums.
My netiquette is far greater than yours and there is NOTHING appalling
about it!

You jump in here, make a demeaning remark, without an explanation and
claim I am a problem.

I didn't just happen across this newsgroup, I was invited here a
couple of years ago and ironically the Subject at the time was also
about ANTS. (See Oct. 28, 2002 thread).

Your only remarks were back then were also knocking WalMart!

Unlike your chicken self, my e-mail address is REAL, and quite obvious
to anyone to remove the .nospam from the end to contact me.

I would like to repost a couple of questions by FH concerning you from
May 2003:
"are you EVER going to actually post something that has any value
here? what cleaning tips have your contributed?"

Obviously, your presence here is totally worthless!

If any group at all is paying you for anything they must be out of
their minds!

Gary

[Barbecue Bob]

In article <4099378d.1621446078@news.galilei.com>,
raiar@bbs.galilei.com.nospam (Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.) wrote:

> Marcia Pease <mbear@nospam.address> verbositized:
>
> >Mr. Deutschmann: What makes you think it was *your* soapbox?
> >
> >Nan: Thank you for emailing me about Mr. Deutchmann's appalling
> >"netiquette". If AHC were able to pay me as much as other groups, I
> >could afford to monitor AHC more closely. As it is, I must depend on
> >readers like you to alert me to problems.
> >--
> >Until next time,
> >Marcey
>
> Dear Marcey
>
> I don't know who died and made you GOD,

We call her the Godmother of Discipline. but it's just a nickname.

> but USENET newsgroups are open
> unmoderated forums.

Without first-class moderation, AHC would not have become the most
respected group on USENET. I'm sure the board will hire a moderator
again as soon as the cash-flow problems are straightened out.

> My netiquette is far greater than yours and there is NOTHING appalling
> about it!
>
> You jump in here, make a demeaning remark, without an explanation and
> claim I am a problem.

Evidently Nan thought you were a problem when you ordered her off your
soapbox. Here at AHC, we've never read anything quite so rude!

>
> I didn't just happen across this newsgroup, I was invited here a
> couple of years ago and ironically the Subject at the time was also
> about ANTS. (See Oct. 28, 2002 thread).

I read the thread but didn't see who invited you. Did they warn you to
read the Charter?

>
> Your only remarks were back then were also knocking WalMart!

Who but a troll would accuse Marcey of knocking a corporate sponsor?
>
> Unlike your chicken self, my e-mail address is REAL, and quite obvious
> to anyone to remove the .nospam from the end to contact me.

Wouldn't you love to know Marcey's email address? Is that why you're
trolling her? I think you'd clog her mailbox with so many love letters
from "a secret admirer" that people like Nan with legitimate complaints
couldn't get through to her.

>
> I would like to repost a couple of questions by FH concerning you from
> May 2003:
> "are you EVER going to actually post something that has any value
> here? what cleaning tips have your contributed?"

FH is a shameless flirt. (No offense, FH, OK?)
>
> Obviously, your presence here is totally worthless!

Without Marcey, AHC would have trolls, spam, OTs, flames, and cyber
dating. (No offense, FH, OK?)

>
> If any group at all is paying you for anything they must be out of
> their minds!
>
> Gary
>
There are two kinds of groups: those who pay Marcey and those who wish
they could.
--
Barbecue Bob serving family-style roast bunny
at convenient restaurants
from Montana to New Mexico

[Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.]

Hi Boob

The term "OK - Off my soapbox"

Simply means I ranted long enough and time to step down from
preaching!

It IS NOT directed at someone else or accusing someone else of
something!

I guess it depends in which part of the country you live in what
things mean.
My wife who is from the south, brought many midwesterners who thought
they were her friends to tears because of a common phrase used in the
south that has just the opposite meaning in real English.

Where I'm from, if someone says 'they don't care to' it means what it
says, they DON'T want to do it. But apparently down south, it means
just the opposite and they would be GLAD to do it.

"OK - OFF MY SOAPBOX" is NOT a direction or comment to someone else!
It is a comment to ones own self, alerting others that they are
TURNING OFF their preaching mode.

TTUL
Gary

[Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.]

Hi Nan

Based on threads after this one,
If my comment was misconstrued or taken as a directive
I APOLOGIZE!

It was not intended that way.
To Me, the phrase "Off My Soapbox" meant that "I" "ME" personally, was
stepping down from my preaching.
It was not intended to mean that anyone else was on 'my' soapbox, nor
that I was telling YOU to get off MY soapbox.

We all have our soapboxes that we get on from time to time!
When I say "Off My Soapbox" it is a self directed instruction to
myself. Meaning, I'm boring people to death, so I'm getting OFF of MY
OWN Soapbox.

Sorry for the misunderstanding!

TTUL
Gary

[The Ranger]

Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr. <raiar@bbs.galilei.com.nospam> rose fast and struck
hard in message news:409a79bf.1703929765@news.galilei.com as Bubba-Boob set
the hook and started reeling:
> The term "OK - Off my soapbox"
>
> Simply means I ranted long enough and time to step down from
> preaching!
>
> It IS NOT directed at someone else or accusing someone else of
> something!
[snip]

Gary, Gary, Gary; are you _REALLY_ that stupid? [Hint: Don't answer.]

Boob! You know better. Throw it back. You don't poach the corporate Koi
pond.

The Ranger
--
"All Scottish cooking is based on a dare"
Mike Meyers

[Marcia Pease]

In article <409a79bf.1703929765@news.galilei.com>,
raiar@bbs.galilei.com.nospam (Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.) wrote:

> Hi Boob

Be careful, Gary. There's a lurker around here called "Ranger". (I may
be wrong, but I think she's the one who was arrested for starting a
forest fire to get even with her husband.) If she thinks you've
invented a cute nickname for Bob, she'll imitate everything you say.
Then she'll call you names because she doesn't think it's fair that
you're smarter than she is.

Please forgive Bob for flaming you. I'm afraid his envy showed its ugly
head. A few months ago, he emailed most of us to announce that he would
soon be a gigolo like you. Then he learned that he didn't have enough
college credits for certification.

>
> The term "OK - Off my soapbox"
>
> Simply means I ranted long enough and time to step down from
> preaching!

Preaching is what made this group great.

>
> It IS NOT directed at someone else or accusing someone else of
> something!

Preaching should be directed at someone else unless of course you're
preaching to yourself.

>
> I guess it depends in which part of the country you live in what
> things mean.
> My wife who is from the south, brought many midwesterners who thought
> they were her friends to tears because of a common phrase used in the
> south that has just the opposite meaning in real English.
>
> Where I'm from, if someone says 'they don't care to' it means what it
> says, they DON'T want to do it. But apparently down south, it means
> just the opposite and they would be GLAD to do it.

My niece visited from the midwest. I told her I was going to explain
the importance of obedience. She said she wouldn't mind if I did. That
challenge to my authority left me no choice but to slap her hand with a
ruler.
>
> "OK - OFF MY SOAPBOX" is NOT a direction or comment to someone else!

I know you're angry, but MUST YOU SHOUT?

> It is a comment to ones own self, alerting others that they are
> TURNING OFF their preaching mode.

You alert others by talking to yourself?

>
> TTUL
> Gary
>
--
Until next time,
Marcey

[Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.]

Hi Marcey

>Be careful, Gary. There's a lurker around here called "Ranger". (I may
>be wrong, but I think she's the one who was arrested for starting a
>forest fire to get even with her husband.) If she thinks you've
>invented a cute nickname for Bob, she'll imitate everything you say.
>Then she'll call you names because she doesn't think it's fair that
>you're smarter than she is.

Barbeque Boob is popular around these parts!
In heavy competition to the Road Kill Kafee
They have something in common with each other too!
Both are inedible and the gray barrels also say so.

As far as The Ranger, her superiority came shining right through!

>Please forgive Bob for flaming you. I'm afraid his envy showed its ugly
>head. A few months ago, he emailed most of us to announce that he would
>soon be a gigolo like you. Then he learned that he didn't have enough
>college credits for certification.

Well, I guess for about 20 years I could have been considered a
gigolo!
Although the term 'a kept man' was how I was often described!
On my IRS Return I used the term 'househusband' (lower taxes), hi hi

I think he's just jealous!

>Preaching is what made this group great.

AMEN to that Sister!

>Preaching should be directed at someone else unless of course you're
>preaching to yourself.

No, I was preaching to the whole congregation, at large!

>My niece visited from the midwest. I told her I was going to explain
>the importance of obedience. She said she wouldn't mind if I did. That
>challenge to my authority left me no choice but to slap her hand with a
>ruler.

Good for YOU!!!!!

>I know you're angry, but MUST YOU SHOUT?

It DOES help get the STAINS OUT, hi hi.....

>You alert others by talking to yourself?

I know, I had better be careful on that point, lest I be 'put away'
for it.

Ut Oh, there coming to take me away hee hee haa haa ho ho to the funny
farm, where life is beautiful all the time, and I'll be happy to see
those nice young men in their clean white coats and their coming to
take me away hee hee haa haa ho ho to the funny farm, where basket
weavers sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes hee hee haa
haa ho ho. Exit, stage left!

TTUL
Gary