Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:10:48 -0800 From: Wes Browning Subject: Re: [WRITERS] Toscano for List Italian On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Mistress Masham wrote: > On Friday, December 4, 1998 0:22:46, Judy Ray wrote: > > >Anthony T.: > > > >>A true curmudgeon never lies. His cynicism is his truth. He believes in > >>nothing and he trusts no one. > > > > Well, from where I sit, Toscano has moved up ahead of Gene. Robert, > >I'm sorry, but you're now in 3rd place. If a true curmugeon is really what > >Anthony says, he fits the bill like no one else on the list so far. Cynicism > >is his middle name, nonbelief his credo, and trust? Hell, he won't even > >tell *me* where he lives! :) > > But everyone's still missing the point. A _true_ curmudgeon would want no > truck with a contest. > You are absolutely correct, Mistress M. Accordingly I propose that the winner of this contest not be referred to as LIST CURMUDGEON, of which there is none, but merely as LIST MOST CURMUDGEOUS. BTW: I believe Robert C. removed himself entirely from consideration when he complained that Dan Goodman's question regarding last names was pointless. Even a slightly curmudgeous person would embrace pointlessness, recognizing it as the very heart and soul of modern existence and far preferable to all those dreary pathetic attempts to be 'relevant' which pass for intellectual debate on this or any other email list (I gag at just the thought of them.) Anthony T. would never complain that a question was pointless. Anthony T. would heap sneering sarcastic abuse on that question. Then he would write a poem further exposing the absurdity of that question. But he would never object to it being pointless, for he knows that everything is pointless. Look, even his writing is pointless. He isn't a writer! He says so! -- If any of you have complaints about this email, please direct them to the gerbil killers at www.outlook.com. Thank You. ---------------------------------------------------- (c) Dr. Wes Browning, http://www.speakeasy.org/~wes WARNING! >>>>>>>> POET AT WORK! >>>>>>>> WATCH HEAD! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~