Date:         Fri, 19 Dec 1997 06:09:02 -0500
From: Bill Lantry <wlantry@EROLS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Filler

At 07:50 PM 12/18/1997 -0800, you wrote:
>List Conservative! Whew! There goes 67 years 173 days 19 hours and 48
>minutes of radical activism right down the tubes. Phil

Dear Phil,

Don't worry about it. Here I am, a fire breathing socialist,
and damned proud that a socialist Minister of Education signed
my paychecks for five years, and almost always someone votes
for me in this catagory. They've got a sense of humor!   ;)

At least they didn't vote you List Liberal...  ;)

Thanks,

Bill
(ps. I'd thank all my loyal constituents, who have confirmed
my position as list curmudgeon, but that would be out of
character! All hail Bill Sier, who I toppled in a bloody coup
four years ago, but whose campaign phrase ["a vote for me is
better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick"] lives on
in infamy. And to those who voted me tops in the kick bed
catagory last year, but abandoned me this time... O, you
fickle girls! Just cause I didn't get to all of you this
past year, you spurn me? I would have thought 3/4 was a
good percentage. And on top of that: to dump me for an
alaskan! Is there to be no preservation of even the last
shreds of my pitiful dignity? I think you're all just
jealous of Izzy's purple top! So there!   ;)

and thanks to the contest's namesake, for the hard work,
and to CB, who did a great job with the announcements,
and who, for once, wasn't faking it...  ;)  Hmmm... think
those are *real* shells in that shotgun?   ;)