You guys are all psychos!!!
Omegaman
get laid or something. I mean, come on, adults talking about legos on the
net, how disgraceful. Why don't you get out and go to a Star Trek
convention or something. I know those people are strange, but at least
they don't waste time talking about legos on the net.
You guys suck,
sincerely
'-us.
Lance Visser
+>You guys are all psychos, you should get out more. You should go out and
+>get laid or something. I mean, come on, adults talking about legos on the
+>net, how disgraceful. Why don't you get out and go to a Star Trek
+>convention or something. I know those people are strange, but at least
+>they don't waste time talking about legos on the net.
Junior, if your going to go trolling for flames, at least think
up an original angle or approach.
+> You guys suck,
I suppose everyone has gone home for the holiday except for you,
Must be fun hanging around an empty school.
Adult 'Legomaniac'
Hmmm....I wonder why almost all >flames< tend to bring up the subject of *GETTING LAID*....say' whos the psycho around here Mr. Omega(man)
At least some of us are a bit less single minded that you.
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Jan
HafthorS
(Omegaman) writes:
:You guys are all psychos, you should get out more. You should go out and
Hey, this guy's right on the money. I think our time would be MUCH better
spent by carefully policeing the net and flameing anyone that maybe sexual
inactive.
All sarcasism aside, if you're so damn studdly, why are you spending your
free time searching for trouble?
: You guys suck,
: sincerely
: '-us.
You know, a carefully inserted "Your Mama" would have nearly doubled the
intelligence and ellegance of your message. In short, KMFA.
Rob Maguire
>You guys are all psychos, you should get out more. You should go out and
>get laid or something. I mean, come on, adults talking about legos on the
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
A little less ont he flame side, but woth mentioning. Adults aren't the only
ones with availability to the net. A lot of (pardon the expression) kids have
access either thru actual purchasing of accounts or an older brother or sister
who has been gracious enough to let them use their accounts. Personally, I go
to University and have my own account (just thought I'd pont hat out). If your
pointing out that 13yr old kids should go out and get laid, well, I'm not going
to enter into that disscussion... Maybe you should initially notify readers
that the mesage is meant for the adults (who WILL still flame you, just better
because of more experience ;-)).
>net, how disgraceful. Why don't you get out and go to a Star Trek
^^^^^^^^^
>convention or something. I know those people are strange, but at least
^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
I have and do. And I don't think they're at all strange.
>they don't waste time talking about legos on the net.
^^^^^
Hmm...
> You guys suck,
^^^^
Using the phrases "get laid" and "suck" int he same message. It looks like this
guy is either a deranged lunatic or was deprived of lego as a child ;-)
P.S. Aww! Now look what you made me do... I used those stupid "^" marks in a
flame. I hate using those "^" marks and I never flame anyone, anyone sane
anyway. Aww! Now look what you made me do... I insulted you. I hate
insulting people, cause, frankly, I'm no good at it.
Omegaman
HafthorS <haft...@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <CzqK8...@riker.neoucom.edu>, gold...@riker.neoucom.edu
>(Omegaman) writes:
>
>:You guys are all psychos, you should get out more. You should go out and
>:get laid or something. I mean, come on, adults talking about legos on
>the
>:net, how disgraceful. Why don't you get out and go to a Star Trek
>:convention or something. I know those people are strange, but at least
>:they don't waste time talking about legos on the net.
>
>Hey, this guy's right on the money. I think our time would be MUCH better
>spent by carefully policeing the net and flameing anyone that maybe sexual
>inactive.
>All sarcasism aside, if you're so damn studdly, why are you spending your
>free time searching for trouble?
Quite frankly, oh virginal sir, I did not go cruising for your little
group; it pounced upon me. My server had the audacity to waste *my* time
with the announcement that alt.legos, a perfect little out-of-the-way
group, had moved up into the rec. category and ignored my requests to not
subscribe. So, since I was already subscribed, I figure it is time to
flame. And believe me, your group offers no trouble. Why don't you go
write a poem, or a good flame? Wouldn't that be a more enduring monument
than a collection of plastic pieces that nobody will ever see?
Let me guess. Your works are displayed at the national museum of legos,
located in Legoland?
Laughing as always,
Omegaman
Antony Sampson
: net, how disgraceful. Why don't you get out and go to a Star Trek
Not half as bad as people talking about adults talking about lego on the net.
And before any of you come back with "...people talking about people
talking about adults talking about lego..." - don't bother.
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Tony Sampson - alive and well and living in the state of South Australia.
email to: sam...@apanix.apana.org.au
TANSTAAFL,
so I hope you're buying!
Erik White
Ifd you don't like what we are talking about don't read this newsgroup, if using Lego's is good enough for students at MIT and other institutes of higher learning than it can't be all bad. Maybe its you who need to get a life.
Erik>
John Garden
gold...@riker.neoucom.edu (Omegaman) writes:
> Quite frankly, oh virginal sir, I did not go cruising for your little
> group; it pounced upon me. My server had the audacity to waste *my* time
> with the announcement that alt.legos, a perfect little out-of-the-way
> group, had moved up into the rec. category and ignored my requests to not
> subscribe. So, since I was already subscribed, I figure it is time to
> flame. And believe me, your group offers no trouble. Why don't you go
> write a poem, or a good flame? Wouldn't that be a more enduring monument
> than a collection of plastic pieces that nobody will ever see?
>
> Let me guess. Your works are displayed at the national museum of legos,
> located in Legoland?
>
> Laughing as always,
> Omegaman
>
Let's see ... we have a guy who calls himself "Omegaman, Prince of
Flames", and we have people who like LEGO.
Who's the psycho? You make the call.
JG@PI
Lee Groves
> ...So, since I was already subscribed, I figure it is time to
> flame. And believe me, your group offers no trouble. Why don't you go
> write a poem, or a good flame?
I would suppose it is because we wouldn't want you to feel insignificant
when you realized that not only do you not understand Lego, but that
you are incapable of comprehending poetry as well.
As for a good flame, well, I'd love to learn that art, but I'm
still waiting to see a reasonable example of one...
A few points:
I have a life the likes of which you can only fantasize about.
1) I have an intellectually demanding job at a national reseach
facility.
2) I'm an artist/photographer/writer *for fun*. --with
reasonable success.
3) I've been confused several times for a certain celebrity athelete
who is dating Brooke Shields.
4) And since you seem to enjoy questioning our collective sex lives,
I'll mention that I'm engaged to a woman the likes of which you
are likely only to see in a photograph, and who's libido would
probably render you spent in a matter of a few seconds.
Yes, Lego are little pieces of plastic. The Parthenon is is a few
pieces of stone. _American Gothic_ is a piece of wood. Moonlight
Sonota is a sum of acoustic sine waves.
>>Wouldn't that be a more enduring monument
> than a collection of plastic pieces that nobody will ever see?
Though I suspect that you have not been more than five feet
from your terminal in the past few years, I would be curious to
know if you have seen the new building housing the Minnesota
Historical Society. --It looks as thought it is built from
Lego, and it is one of the best examples of a public building
that I have seen in recent times.
I would suggest that you buy yourself a set of Lego and learn the
art of assembling things in a logical and cohesive manner.
Start with Lego, and then apply what you learn to your flames.
> Laughing as always,
So are we.
Lee
David Karr
Heh heh. I guess this bozo was playing hooky the day they explained
how babies are made.
>I did not go cruising for your little
>group; it pounced upon me.
"Your honor, the state will show that Mr. Jones did assault Mr. Smith
by striking Mr. Smith in the fist with his face."
>My server had the audacity to waste *my* time
>with the announcement that alt.legos, a perfect little out-of-the-way
>group, had moved up into the rec. category and ignored my requests to not
>subscribe.
What? That change was made almost a year ago. What took your server
so long? Sounds like you should go vent your spleen on your system
administrator. While you're at it, ask why you have to use such a
cruddy newsreader.
If, however, what you really want is to learn how to flame, there
are better groups in which to learn it. We simply don't have the
time for remedial lessons here.
-- David A. Karr (ka...@cs.cornell.edu)
-- http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karr/home.html
Dave Campbell, KLYF
>In article <D002B...@riker.neoucom.edu>
>gold...@riker.neoucom.edu (Omegaman) writes:
>
>> Quite frankly, oh virginal sir, I did not go cruising for your little
>> group; it pounced upon me. My server had the audacity to waste *my* time
>> with the announcement that alt.legos, a perfect little out-of-the-way
>> group, had moved up into the rec. category and ignored my requests to not
>> subscribe. So, since I was already subscribed, I figure it is time to
>> flame. And believe me, your group offers no trouble. Why don't you go
>> write a poem, or a good flame? Wouldn't that be a more enduring monument
>> than a collection of plastic pieces that nobody will ever see?
>>
>> Let me guess. Your works are displayed at the national museum of legos,
>> located in Legoland?
>>
>> Laughing as always,
>> Omegaman
>>
Gee, Omegaman (if that is your real name)...
If I type "unsub", followed by the name of the offending newsgroup, I can save
myself a lot of time by not looking at newsgroups I have no interest in.
Just a little tip from your charming and delightful old Uncle Lar'...
Alexander (Sandy) McKinney
In article <D002B...@riker.neoucom.edu>, gold...@riker.neoucom.edu (Omegaman) writes:
|> Quite frankly, oh virginal sir, I did not go cruising for your little
|> group; it pounced upon me. My server had the audacity to waste *my* time
|> with the announcement that alt.legos, a perfect little out-of-the-way
|> group, had moved up into the rec. category and ignored my requests to not
|> subscribe. So, since I was already subscribed, I figure it is time to
|> flame. And believe me, your group offers no trouble. Why don't you go
|> write a poem, or a good flame? Wouldn't that be a more enduring monument
|> than a collection of plastic pieces that nobody will ever see?
Ok, so your server wasted *your* time. So you continued to waste *your*
time, by not only reading something you obviously have no interest in, but
to write up that little display of childish flaming.
Write a peom? How is a creation with words any better than a creation with
"plastic pieces"? It's the creation that is important in any artistic
endeavour - not the medium.
I decided to check something:
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mercury: finger gold...@riker.neoucom.edu
[stuff deleted]
Project: astrally, if possible.
Plan:
To feed the world, and thus make it all belong to me.
To conquer swirling leaf dervishes as they mutate from reds to browns.
To make love to the ultimate mind.
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Interesting. And he called us LEGO users psychos?
Oh, and for your information Omegaman:
I'm intelligent. I'm financially secure. I'm liked. I have a beautiful
girlfriend. A loving family. And a red sports-car.
And LOTS OF LEGO!
ARM
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Alexander R. (Sandy) McKinney Electrical Engineering Grad Student
mcki...@eleceng.ee.queensu.ca Queens University
Kingston, Ont., CANADA
"Yes, Officer, I am aware the posted speed limit is 100km/hr..."
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Mark R. Spiering
Wow, that was extremely intellegent. It must take massive amounts of brain
power and a very high IQ to come up with insults like that. Why do you feel
like you have to attack something that is interesting and fun for other
people? Did you ever read the age recommendations on the sides of LEGO
boxes? Most of them read "For Ages X and Up" with the word "up" being the
key word in that statement.
I've been building with LEGOs since I can rememeber. I'm now 24 and I think
that playing with LEGOs has stimulated my creativity, taught me organization,
given me a basic mechanical inclination, and provided me with hours upon
hours of sheer enjoyment. I'm very glad and proud to say that I still
continue to build things with LEGOs. Incidentally, I've used my LEGOs on
more than one occasion to build projects for various Engineering classes
that I'm taking.
By the way, I go to the bars quite regularly, I have a girlfriend, I enjoy
the outdoors very much, and I listen to great music like Eric Clapton and
Led Zeppelin. In other words, I'm a NORMAL HUMAN BEING who happens to like
playing with LEGOs.
So there.
Mark R. Spiering
Electrical Engineering Student
Milwaukee School Of Engineering
P.S. - Star Trek kicks ass!
Eileen Keeney
: boxes? Most of them read "For Ages X and Up" with the word "up" being the
: key word in that statement.
This is not true.
Most of the sets I buy actually have an upper limit (12 is very common).
Very few sets, I have seen, don't have an upper limit. 16 is common on
technic sets.
But these are just guidlines, to help people buying toys for kids, when they
may not really know the kid so well, that they know what the kid can handle
and will enjoy.
The upper limit means very little when one knows the person who is going
to play with the toy (myself usually, and I do know myself).
The lower limit is much more useful, especially when the age is 3 (as under
3 is not allowed to have parts a kid can easily choke on).
Also the lower limit is useful for understanding the dexterity level that
would be required to not get too frustrated playing with the toy.
It was the lower age recomendation of 7, that caused me to change my mind
about giving a Belville set to my 5 year old niece (who is below average
in most developmental areas, and actually still plays with Duplo far more
than Lego).
I don't really understand why
posts that are posted for the purpose of getting negative attention,
draw more responses than most other posts ?
I suppose that is good, since the people posting the stuff seem to need the
attention.
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|Eileen F. Keeney |email: eil...@hpcvnefk.cv.hp.com
|Hewlett Packard, Corvallis, ICBD |phone: (503) 715-3140
|Software Application Specialist |location 2U-G33
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Richard T Wurdack
: From article <D002B...@riker.neoucom.edu>, by gold...@riker.neoucom.edu (Omegaman):
: > ...So, since I was already subscribed, I figure it is time to
: > flame. And believe me, your group offers no trouble. Why don't you go
: > write a poem, or a good flame?
: I would suppose it is because we wouldn't want you to feel insignificant
: when you realized that not only do you not understand Lego, but that
: you are incapable of comprehending poetry as well.
He is also, apparently, incapable of using his newsreader if he can
figure out how to unsubscribe a newgroup.
finger gold...@riker.neoucom.edu to see what a winner this guy is.
Richard.
Ivan Van Laningham
>In article <CzqK8...@riker.neoucom.edu>, gold...@riker.neoucom.edu (Omegaman) says:
>>
>>You guys are all psychos, you should get out more. You should go out and
>>get laid or something. I mean, come on, adults talking about legos on the
>>net, how disgraceful. Why don't you get out and go to a Star Trek
>>convention or something. I know those people are strange, but at least
>>they don't waste time talking about legos on the net.
>>
>> You guys suck,
>> sincerely
>> '-us.
>
>
>Wow, that was extremely intellegent. It must take massive amounts of brain
>power and a very high IQ to come up with insults like that. Why do you feel
>
c'mon, everyone...quit responding to this omegaturkey. you're
just encouraging him by allowing him to provoke you. the
proper procedure is to ignore him.
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disclaimer: i am not connected with BYU in *ANY* way.
they are not responsible for what i say or do. more
importantly, i am not responsible for what they say or do.
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Ted Michon
started this thread, but we might keep a few points it mind:
1. What makes anyone think the person who posted the message has read
ANY of the scathing rebuttal posts here? (Moral: Mail the message to the
trouble maker, don't post it for the rest of us).
2. The rest of have to wade through all the responses. (Moral: Same as
above).
3. The original message went away, but keeps getting regurgitated by
everyone who includes it in his/her replies. We've amplified the
sender's hit and run attack for him/her by an order of magnitude.
(Moral: Same as above).
-Ted
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Ted Michon Imagination Technology Corporation
mic...@ix.netcom.com
wilson erik robert
>I don't mind that people reply to wacko messages like the one that
>started this thread, but we might keep a few points it mind:
[good points for replying directly by email deleted]
I generally agree with Teds reasoning but I don't mind seeing one or a
few followups to moron-posted flame bait with the following points in mind:
1) It needs to be witty and literate, if all you can say is "Uh you are
a dork too" then just email it directly to the offender (this can be good
if his mailbox fills up). Random flames put me in a bad mood but if I
read a witty followup, it puts me in a better mood and gives me a laugh.
Some of the people who followed up the omegadork did a nice job of
restoring my humor. I guess the moral is that if you have an urge to
fire back publicly take a deep breath, calm down and write intelligently.
2) If you see that someone else has beaten you to the punch (look first)
then just be satisfied with that and go on to bigger and better business.
Things like that only deserve one (or a few at most) responses
3) Edit the original posting (people have already seen it) and replace
it with something like:
[obnoxious flame bait deleted]
4) If all else fails you can always save his address in case you are
in a really bad mood some day.
All in all I appriciate all the people who were "defending our part
of usenet against the infidel" even if they were shooting from the hip,
it may just be that there are more effective ways of handling such things.
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Andy Boal
action, and also bothers doing me the courtesy of replying... when you write
once and shortly afterwards the man posts again...