Congratulations Mr. FORD THAXTON

[Tom Thatcher]

Dear Mr. Thaxton:
I just wanted to congratulate you on being one of the most talked about
persons in the internet/sci-fi community. After seeing hundreds of
threads by or about you in r.a.startrek.current and r.a.s.t.b5,
I checked out r.a.s.t today to read about S:A&B, and find even more
people talking about you. The fact that they are complaining about
you is obviously secondary: You, Sir, are famous in your choosen field;
a large accomplishment. (A corollary compliment is also due to your
obviously industrial-strength e-mail and newsreader software.)

--
Tom Thatcher | You can give a PC to a Homo habilis,
University of Rochester Cancer Center | and he'll use it, but he'll use it
tt...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu | to crack nuts.

[Sol]

In article <1995Oct18....@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
tt...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Thatcher) wrote:

> Dear Mr. Thaxton:
> I just wanted to congratulate you on being one of the most talked about
> persons in the internet/sci-fi community. After seeing hundreds of
> threads by or about you in r.a.startrek.current and r.a.s.t.b5,
> I checked out r.a.s.t today to read about S:A&B, and find even more
> people talking about you. The fact that they are complaining about
> you is obviously secondary: You, Sir, are famous in your choosen field;
> a large accomplishment. (A corollary compliment is also due to your
> obviously industrial-strength e-mail and newsreader software.)
>

He's kidding, right? Just because we all know who Ford is, he's actually
accomplished something important? Should we all think the same thing about
Kato Keilin?

[Ted McCoy]

In article <John_Lawrence_Morg...@cluster-172.cluster.brown.edu>,

>He's kidding, right? Just because we all know who Ford is, he's actually
>accomplished something important? Should we all think the same thing about
>Kato Keilin?

Absofartinglutely! Why, I wouldn't be surprised to see Ford follow Kato's
footsteps onto Mad TV any week now. Neat, eh?

Ted

[WayneHall]

>>Dear Mr. Thaxton:
I just wanted to congratulate you on being one of the most talked about
persons in the internet/sci-fi community. After seeing hundreds of
threads by or about you in r.a.startrek.current and r.a.s.t.b5,
I checked out r.a.s.t today to read about S:A&B, and find even more
people talking about you. The fact that they are complaining about
you is obviously secondary: You, Sir, are famous in your choosen field;
a large accomplishment. (A corollary compliment is also due to your
obviously industrial-strength e-mail and newsreader software.)<<

Ford, you're famous! Congratulations!

The Rev. Commander Wayne
TGFDS9
NIJA

[Kirby Krueger]

In article <465krp$t...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,

Of course, for a bit of perspective, recall that the most frequently
invoked name on Usenet is Adolf Hitler.

(Does this mean that the thread about Ford is officially over?)

--

Kirby Krueger
kir...@peak.org

[walter lee]

kir...@PEAK.ORG (Kirby Krueger) wrote:
In article <465krp$t...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
WayneHall <wayn...@aol.com> wrote:
>>>Dear Mr. Thaxton:
>I just wanted to congratulate you on being one of the most talked about
>persons in the internet/sci-fi community. After seeing hundreds of
>threads by or about you in r.a.startrek.current and r.a.s.t.b5,
>I checked out r.a.s.t today to read about S:A&B, and find even more
>people talking about you. The fact that they are complaining about
>you is obviously secondary: You, Sir, are famous in your choosen field;
>a large accomplishment. (A corollary compliment is also due to your
>obviously industrial-strength e-mail and newsreader software.)<<

Monsieur Thaxton, will finnaly *understand* what it feels to be on the other end
of fame.

Let's see if he enjoyes it.
At the very least, he will be wiser and learned from the experience.

-----------------------------------
So few of us get to be famous. *sigh*

[Sol]

In article <thedoge-1910...@thedoge.inlink.com>, the...@crl.com
(The_Doge of St. Louis) wrote:

> Obviously, Mr. Thatcher failed to close-caption his post for the
> sarcasm impaired.
>

And obviously I failed to close-caption my post for the irony impaired.

[Eric Tolle]

In <463obl$9...@comet.connix.com> rai...@connix.com (Andy Raibeck) writes:

>In <1995Oct18....@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, tt...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Thatcher) writes:

>You've *got* to be kidding. This is a joke..........right?

I think it's quite brillient sarcasm. Of course, Ford will probably
not get it- and be very pleased that he's such an 'important' person.

Eric Tolle unde...@mcl.ucsb.edu
"An' then Chi...@little.com, he come scramblin outta the terminal room
screaming "The system's crashing! The system's crashing!"
-Uncle RAMus, 'Tales for Cyberpsychotic Children'

[Theron Fuller]

In <465krp$t...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> wayn...@aol.com (WayneHall)
writes:

>
>>>Dear Mr. Thaxton:
>I just wanted to congratulate you on being one of the most talked
about
>persons in the internet/sci-fi community. After seeing hundreds of
>threads by or about you in r.a.startrek.current and r.a.s.t.b5,
>I checked out r.a.s.t today to read about S:A&B, and find even more
>people talking about you. The fact that they are complaining about
>you is obviously secondary: You, Sir, are famous in your choosen
field;
>a large accomplishment. (A corollary compliment is also due to your
>obviously industrial-strength e-mail and newsreader software.)<<
>

>Ford, you're famous! Congratulations!
>

>The Rev. Commander Wayne
>TGFDS9
>NIJA

More people are talking about and complaining about Ford Thaxton than
are talking about and complaining about Gharlane?

Gharlane must be hurt to the core...er...corp...er...corps.

Regards,
Theron Fuller