RE: secret to increased enjoyment of Celtic Mailing list

["Sampath, Venkatesh" <Venkatesh.Sampath@microcell.ca>]

Greg,
Now you've gone and done it by deeply offending me! Joe may be living in
Paris, but, dash it, I live in Montreal and I do speak French. So,
unless you retract your comments, I will have to pursue this case and
see that it comes up before the Human Rights Commission! I shall throw
in a charge of racism for good measure, seeing that I belong to the
visible minorities group! 
Hey, Joe, you may be black, but you ain't nothing if you aren't a
visible minority. C'est la vie, mon cher. Il va falloir que tu changes
ta couleur - a la Michael Jackson!

venkat

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>From: 	Greg Odegaard[SMTP:gmodegaa@longvred.rmc.com]
>Sent: 	10 August 1998 11:52
>To: 	John Shepherd; Celtics@igtc.COM
>Subject: 	Re: secret to increased enjoyment of Celtic Mailing list
>
>John,
>
>Give and takes against the unstoppable force that is Noah has been going on
>for nearly 2 months since this insufforable CBA debate started.  Noah
>himself stated many weeks ago that he had little use for the discussion of
>actual basketball talk, but thrived on the this oh so fascinating CBA war
>of the worlds.  In short, and again using his own words, he has almost no
>sense of humor, therefore his constant picking apart any post on this
>subject, has become very old, stale, boring and most importantly a pain in
>the ass.  
>
>Witness posts just in the last week; Noah has now irritated Dorine, a long
>time and solid contibutor to this list, who as far as I can tell wouldn't
>look to put anyone out of place, of course the same doesn't hold true for
>Noah, his insensitivity has no bounds.  Look at the thread you comment on
>here, there appears to be a concerted effort to filter Noah across numerous
>list members who have had it with his drivel.  Imagine that John, someone
>so put off by this crap that they are willing to block an entire group of
>arguments for the sake of getting rid of one component of the mix.  I truly
>wonder and am curious how Noah feels about being the scorn of so many of
>this group.  I know personnaly of the the depth of this disgust as I have
>heard from dozens who have supported my arguments in the past, and only
>from 2 who had something more than a courtesy comment on Noah's behalf. 
>Only 2 out of the hundreds reading some part of the matter.  Quite the
>mandate.
>
>Me personnaly, Noah filtered me on my home computer only because he
>couldn't take a very educuated give and take, and resorted to calling me
>names.  In a battle of wits, it is hard to fight with an unarmed man, as my
>uncle used to say, "It is hard to soar with the eagles, when you work with
>turkeys".  It is time somebody stuffed this turkey and served him up with
>cranberries and spuds.
>
>I put off this post, hoping he had calmed down, to no avail, but your naive
>comments and threats only serve to fuel my arguments that this is a stupid
>debate, one brought on by a man not one of us would want to spend any real
>time with in a discussion or walking down the street.  He insults us while
>boring us, then chalks it up to his duty as a keeper of the truth on this
>list, ridding us of wrongs and any opinion that doesn't agree with his. 
>How and why Benz keeps responding is anyone's guess.  I for one have long
>respected Benz's input, but with Noah's public service comments even his
>retorts are hardly worth noting.  His Worlds updates are appreciated.
>
>I ask nothing more than Noah to leave us alone with his line by line
>garbage, that we all consider filtering Noah for good, making his arguments
>moot for the most of us.  "If a tree falls in the forest, with no one there
>to hear it, does it make a sound?", or more aptly "does a bear shit in the
>woods?"  When you think about it, it is really the same argument.
>
>Now, for all card carrying members of the "Just say Noah" club repeat after
>me; "I will not let the Re: King ruin my day, I will wait patiently for the
>day he has an original post or idea, and mostly we look for an end to this
>hellish CBA impass that will also bring an end to phenomonon that is Noah.
>If we could all give him just 1/100 our sense of humor, then maybe he could
>be as funny as our accountants"  Amen and pass the Sam Adams.
>
>Later, and apologies now to those I have offended or time and bytes I have
>wasted.  The next meeting will be at 3:00PM ET today on your usual e-mail
>channel, Michael it is your turn to bring the cookies,
>Greg
>
>P.S.  Joe, we understand your compassion, but don't give up the ship. 
>Remember when given the chance Noah has contempt for you too, he just
>doesn't have a translator for French.  His arguments can be interesting,
>but this type of interesting is like walking on glass versus the hot
>pavement, they both hurt.  We welcome you back anytime to the meetings.
>
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>> From: John Shepherd <shepherd@hpwarmn.an.hp.com>
>> To: Celtics@igtc.COM
>> Subject: Re: secret to increased enjoyment of Celtic Mailing list
>> Date: Monday, August 10, 1998 6:54 AM
>> 
>> To Adam and Noah,
>> I have been an occasional contributor and avid reader of this
>> list for sometime now.  I am a season ticket holder who also has
>> strong opinions, some of them proven dead wrong.  I think I should
>> be able to read and contribute to this list, agree or disagree with 
>> others, without rancor.  This list is not your turf.  It is public 
>> domain, and as such, needs to treated with respect.  Your continual 
>> verbal warfare is not amusing or enjoyable by me, and if it continues,
>> I will seek to have both of you deleted from this list.  
>> 
>> Take you silly act somewhere else.  TTFN, John
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