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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:34:39 +1300
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On 11/11/24 04:14, Chris Buckley wrote:
> On 2024-11-10, Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
>> On 10/11/2024 15:45, Titus G wrote:
>>> On 10/11/24 08:42, William Hyde wrote:
>>>> D wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, William Hyde wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why SF? I was there 8 years ago and found it dirty with many drug
>>>>>>> users on the street.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Parts of it, yes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I arrived in SF from a small city with no obvious drug users or
>>>>>> vagrants.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This was because the local police grabbed those people, gave them a
>>>>>> beating, and dumped them in the next county.  Somebody else's problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like heaven! Police acting, doing something, and solving the
>>>>> problem! =)
>>>>
>>>> So you are in fact in favour of government regulation, provided it is
>>>> illegal and hurts people you dislike.
>>>
>>> Now that D is here, the entertainment level is surpassing the Jibini level.
>>
>> Nah, D's not as entertaining as Terry, he's really just a one-trick pony.
>>
>> Terry could come out with new lines and bounce around like a 
>> grass-hopper in a BugCatcher - and probably would have baited D into an 
>> apoplexy, consistency was not one of his strong points.  :-)
> 
> Very true, though I'm not sure inconsistency is the right word. I found
> him quite consistent with himself, just very non-categorizable. He
> certainly would poke fun at anyone he found foolish. I miss him.
> 
> Chris

He would have had a field day with D.
I think that Terry's problem was that, perhaps from boredom, he would
sometimes seek a serious argument with and abuse posters whose views
were the same as his just to annoy and demonstrate who was the top dog.
He was intelligent, knowledgeable, insightful but aggressively nasty and
spiteful. I miss him too.