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Yes, Idiot, you ARE a newbie

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Bass Rock

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Nov 30, 1993, 1:37:20 PM11/30/93
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In article <93334.131...@psuvm.psu.edu>, Kurt Ludwick
<KEL...@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
>
>In article <93334.121...@psuvm.psu.edu>, White Knight
><TAM...@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
>
>>Poor misguided Kurt. Bass Rock he thinks your a newbie because your
>>information on here is incorrect (You know another CAC screw up). Let
>>me whap you over the head Kurt by saying that Bass Rock is not what his
>>information from the mainframe says it is and he is not a freshman..
>
>Hmm, let me see that...
>>CONSOLE: Console spooling started.
>
Good ole' console... Kurt, lemme break it down for you so you'll understand...

>
>> Nick: IDIOT Userid: JHA105
>> Name: Joseph H Alexander Semester: 01
~~
Kurt, I'd hate to have to hurt your feelings (again,) but that *is* a
mistake; I was here last semester, and I posted on psu.flame!!!

>> Address: 410 Stephens Hall Campus: UP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Good 'ole South Halls!!!

>> Phone: 862-1042 Status: Logged on line L0323
>> Home zip: 19132 Location: Logical line
~~~~~
North Philadelphia zip code.

>> Major: D U S
>
>> Acct Disk Account Title/Supervisor Exp
>Date
>> ------ ---- -------------------------------------------------------
>--------
>> I40001 101 Ccadm 999.3 Operations Maintenance/Knowlton Carl L
>12/31/99
>> I52820 100 Econ 004.18 Macroe Anly/Welsh A L
>12/19/93
>> I53160 102 Chem 012.59 Chem Princ/Gold L Peter
>12/19/93
>
>Well, what do you know. It has him listed as a freshman. Boy, that must
>suck.
>
Don't you know by now that you can't believe everything you read?!?!?

>Anyway, Moron, a newbie is not a freshman. I don't know what you think the
>word means, but that isn't it. I know Idiot to be a newbie for the following
>reasons:
>
>1> I had not noticed his ID on psu.flame before 2 weeks ago. He may not
> be a newbie on other newsgroups, but on psu.flame he is.
Once, again; I was here posting on psu.flame _last semester_

>
>2> If it walks like a newbie, talks like a newbie, smells like a newbie and
> blathers like a newbie, it's a newbie. QED
>
I don't believe we've ever met... and I don't believe that I smell like a
newbie; and just *what* is wrong with a newbie? You have to start somewhere.

Kurt, follow the advice I gave to you in my previous post; and please;
have a very good day.

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