An apology

Having met most of the members of IFIS (sorry, iff-iss) tonight, I feel
obliged to repeat my previous apology regarding my quite unseemly
defence of Americans. It was unnecessary, out of order and completely
uncalled for, and I shall never do such a thing again. I reaffirm my
allegiance to the United Kingdom of the British Isles; to prove it, here
is a song:

"Rule Brittania, marmalade and jam;
Look, there's three Yankees, kick 'em up the backsides,
Bang, Bang, Bang!"

I feel I must apologise for the conduct of the Americans in the war.
Stop! You *will* listen!! Resistance is FUTILE!!!!!! No, take that
hankerchief away from my mouth... oh, is that chloroform I smell, or
just a tacky aftershaaaa.........

<THUMP!>

Now kindly please stop slagging me off all the time! Wait until I
actually annoy you first!

D.Chilard

P.S. Simon Richardson is rather more humble in person than I was led to
believe by his E-mails... (that's a good thing!)

<Hack>
The point was that you actually did annoy us, therefore flaming was
appropriate.

Andrew

Andrew Wren thought it would be amusing to write:
I meant the last time someone slagged me off - I quote:

Or "Hey we have successfully reformed a
murderess, lets now kill her by lethal injection". And the rest
of the
world just shrugs in despair (except for D. Chilard).

What exactly is Paul Isley on about here? Sounds like taking my defence
of Americans much too far. What I meant was, racism (of any sort)
sucks! Anyway, I've apologised for all that now, so let's get back to
insulting Gordon Bobic for re-quoting long E-mails just to put a couple
of snide comments at the end...

D.Chilard

Well you did annoy me, by going on about how wonderful the US of A
is, when in reality it's just as bad as every other nation, only
it generally
won't admit it.
Of course I was, it was a flame ;-)
I agree completely.
If it's re-quoting long Emails you want, speak to mr Lyth.
Paul.

Chilard D said:
Oh, and I suppose YOU think IFIS stands for the EYEnstitute for impure
science, do you?
You put finger to keyboard, didn't you? ;-)

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Nick Waterman. Network Consultant / Sysadmin - LEOnet
Beating tomorrow's technology into submission.
nick-sig@ Team *AMIGA*!
Brain fried; core dumped.

As someone pointed out last night, it's far more likely to stand for
Institute For Insulting Sarcasm.

Hope that helps.

Later,

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Adam Hattrell, Support, Cimio Ltd. adam@

In article <7163823F2EDACF1188610000C0F06ACF01942759@>, Chilard D <D.Chilard@> wrote:
There, you see, the man has done the decent thing, and you ought to show
what decent, forgiving blokes us wonderful English people are. Come on,
peoples, let's keep the personal abuse light...
Humble? Humble? HUMBLE?

Why you little piece of ~#@* _S)V
#$^ ~


NO CARRIER

Yes, one thing IFIS is short on is humility.

I'd go so far as to say that MOST of the IFIS members/hangers-on I know are
arrogant bastards.(1) Is this a generic feature of the Science Fiction
community?

Humble folk who like Sci-Fi (2)just sit at home appreciating it. They don't
feel obliged to discuss(3) it.

(1) Yep, that includes me. Also Patric, Tim, Matthew, and anyone called Simon
or Chris.

(2) Yep, I just put this in to annoy Chris Lythe (sic).

(3)discuss dis-kus', v.t. 1. to talk about. 2. to opine incessantly. 3. to
attempt to inflict one's own inherently superior point of view onto others,
thus bolstering the ego by bullying the inferior peasantry with exquisite
argumentation and witty, yet biting insults.

Right! Now I've had the last word, we can all stop talking cobblers, and get
back to Science Fiction.

Dominic

"I don't mean to sound cold, cruel and vicious,
but I am, so that's the way it comes out." [Bill Hicks]

DOMINIC SAID>(2) Yep, I just put this in to annoy Chris Lythe (sic).

Never admit to trying to annoy me, It just amuses me then which I assume defeats your object.
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clyth@
In relativity, matter tells space how to curve, and space tells matter
how to move. The Heart of Gold told space to get knotted...
D. Adams Life, The Universe and Everything

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