Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Buckley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here... Date: 10 Nov 2024 15:14:40 GMT Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net RN/RXH0B0nzeVa8gvyFZxw/g6EWIRTCHIgrJuMsJnkQ4Et05vV Cancel-Lock: sha1:81z/yuTrjcm9kHuZT6vGyboJmH0= sha256:KWsg4jIqd6+CG8jJOx1pO7+Ay2YRX4uXRclmNtpCgDo= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 2491 On 2024-11-10, Gary R. Schmidt 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